Friday, October 26, 2012

I wanna know about the strangest lightning

One thing that separates the linguistic capabilities of humans apart from other animals is the instinctive attempt to separate series of sounds into words, whether we comprehend them or not. That being said, we try to pick out sounds that we recognize as words.

Throughout my stay in Germany I have heard the songs of "Tangled" more times in German than I can count (granted math really isn't my thing). For months I've thought to myself "How strange. Why is he saying 'I'll decide' in the midst of this German?" I knew that couldn't possibly be what he was saying, but I couldn't help but hear it. Finally, a couple of days ago, I exclaimed, "ALL DIE ZEIT! Is THAT what he's saying?!" I can't express to you the relief which washed over me. I've slept much better ever since. Granted, this isn't just a cross-language issue. I also thought the Phil Collins song from "Tarzan" said, "I wanna know. Can you show me? I wanna know about the strangest lightning." Come on. Don't pretend that you've never misheard lyrics.

I'm not sayin'; I'm just sayin'.

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