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Time has proven this to be among my three favourites of the 2006 Eurovision entries. This song also proves that I am a linguist born and bred --- I do not understand Albanian at all (I've worked with three Kosovar Albanians, and overheard them speak, but Albanian is a unique branch of Indo-European and far too distant from the Slavic, Germanic, or Romance branches for me to get anything) yet I always compulsively start analyzing the lyrics.
So because it has gotten irrevocably stuck in my head, I give it to you. It's fun to dance to.
A very nice person on YouTube put up the actual lyrics (useful for morphological analysis) and the translation --- however, I enjoyed this song for months and months without having a clue what it was about.
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Time has proven this to be among my three favourites of the 2006 Eurovision entries. This song also proves that I am a linguist born and bred --- I do not understand Albanian at all (I've worked with three Kosovar Albanians, and overheard them speak, but Albanian is a unique branch of Indo-European and far too distant from the Slavic, Germanic, or Romance branches for me to get anything) yet I always compulsively start analyzing the lyrics.
So because it has gotten irrevocably stuck in my head, I give it to you. It's fun to dance to.
A very nice person on YouTube put up the actual lyrics (useful for morphological analysis) and the translation --- however, I enjoyed this song for months and months without having a clue what it was about.
( Read more... )