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Why does songs from non-English countries have random English words? Can you imagine if English songs randomly have Chinese words?

3 months ago by 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 to c/showerthoughts

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Usually its like just a few words sprinkled in, or at most like one or two lines...

Literally I feel like they're just trying to say: "Hey this is a foreign language I'm sooo cooool!"

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over_clox 35 points 3 months ago

This is more of a question than a thought, but apparently the English language borrows from lots of Latin-ish and other alphabetic languages of centuries past.

Yes English is awkward. I didn't write the rules or definitions either. 🤷

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Lost_My_Mind 11 points 3 months ago

Just think.

Right now at your local hardware store are tons of tools you can buy. If you need to cut something, you can buy a saw.

And when you use the saw, the word "saw" is the verb of how you use the noun. So you'd use a saw to saw.

And if you had an instinct to cut a saw in half, you might use a second saw to cut the first saw in half.

But you wouldn't do that. YOU have no desire to do that. But maybe someone else does. And maybe you just happened to bear witness to the cutting of the saw. You will have seen it. And since thats now in past tense, you saw it happen.

In which case you will have saw a saw saw a saw.

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Pirky 5 points 3 months ago

I once saw a man in Arkansas, who had a saw which could out saw any saw that it saw saw; the man said, "Have you saw a saw that could out saw the saw you saw in Arkansas? If you have saw a saw that could out saw the saw you saw in Arkansas, show me the saw saw."; when he said that I saw a saw, I said, "Yes I did saw a saw in Arkansas, and what a saw I saw, that saw saw!!"

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Lost_My_Mind 4 points 3 months ago

I was going to say that you're more like The Brain. Then as I increased the font size, I realized your name is Pirky. Not Pinky. So now my reference makes no sense.

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