I was curious, why do Bodom and so many other Finnish/Sweedish/German/Whatever bands have English names and lyrics?
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_Zsuzsa_
Dumbo
errr...maybe for better understanding?ya know english is the common language worldwide, just a guess though 
(irony sweet irony)
(irony sweet irony)
for-will-drive-devil
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Cat5Messiah
Violator of Sheep
Yeah it's kind of strange that different countries will teach English for it is the primary language of the world. And schools here in America usually don't offer second languages which pisses me off. Colleges do, but I wish I could of taken another language in high school, but there wasn't any classes. Oh well, I'll just learn my languages in college when I go back.
ShadowLioness
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Yeah English is the common language. Most people at least know it as their second. I know for a fact that in Japan you are required to take English in school. As for here in the U.S.:
As far as I know...taking a foreign language is always offered in high school(and of course college). I had my pick of Spanish, French or German. Dumbass me took French though...Spanish would have been much more useful. Ah well.
Au Revoir!
As far as I know...taking a foreign language is always offered in high school(and of course college). I had my pick of Spanish, French or German. Dumbass me took French though...Spanish would have been much more useful. Ah well.
Au Revoir!
Thilo
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FailingAcension
Spiffy, eh?
In such a small school, so close to Mexico (by standards) Spanish is our only choice, and it comes in quite handy. But I see afew bands that start out singing in their own language then switching to English. Dimmu, Vintersorg, Borknagar... (yikes, all those bands are very closely related)
loWildChild
Haistakaapa vittu!
Originally posted by _Zsuzsa_
errr...maybe for better understanding?ya know english is the common language worldwide, just a guess though
Well.... if you say worldwide.
Most spoken language in da world its the Chinesse Mandarin. (760 million people)
Then English (427 million) and then Spanish (266). The most complete language of these three its the spanish
loWildChild
Haistakaapa vittu!
EagleFlyFree
crack you like an acorn
is that all you learned?
yeah english is a worldwide language, without it (or whatever language would be holding its place if it wasn't english), the world wouldn't be so integrated and communicated
bodomite
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for-will-drive-devil
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Originally posted by loWildChild
Yeah english its too simple. But its the interlingua, ya know....
BTW, french sucks
Mmh, french is not that bad ! I like french... It's hard to say if a language is bad or not... Personnally I don't like german. But alsacian is worse.
But I think french is one of the hardest to learn. (Lots of rules and exeptions etc etc...)
And about learning a language, yep', the choice is often boring...
I had to choose between german, spanish and italian...
I wanted to learn japanese !
bodomite
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Cat5Messiah
Violator of Sheep
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actually, the FIRST OFFICIAL LANGUAGE that is spoken the most is chinese... but if you count everyone that speaks english in the world as a 2nd language, you'll see it's the most spoken one...
anyways, i think it's what zsusza said...
but bands like FinnTroll and Thyrfing singing in swedish kick ass!
anyways, i think it's what zsusza said...
but bands like FinnTroll and Thyrfing singing in swedish kick ass!
for-will-drive-devil
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I think english is also the language spoken in the most different countries (Mmh... I think this sentence is totally wrong, but you see what i mean)
Japanese is hard ? Spicking japanese doesn't look so hard, but writing japanese looks awfull...
Japanese is hard ? Spicking japanese doesn't look so hard, but writing japanese looks awfull...
LunarTower
Child of Decadence
Because English is a very new language, the newest in generations of germanic languages... and its become the most used and usefull language on earth...
Simple enough I guess...
As to why bands use english mostly... wider acceptance?
Simple enough I guess...
As to why bands use english mostly... wider acceptance?
Cat5Messiah
Violator of Sheep
Speaking/learning is difficult because there are words, then there are words that mean more than one word. For example, "Hajimemashite" means "How do you do?". If you know the person personally, you would say "Genki desu ka?" ("Ogenki desu ka?" is formal I believe). Which means, "How are you? (Are you fine?)". Plus you will notice that people will add either -san, -kun, and -chan after one's name. -san is formal, -kun is would you would say to a personal friend, and -chan is for a female. If you are to introduce yourself though, you would not add one of those. There are different words/phrases that will mean the same thing, just one is presented to be formal. It is very confusing when you are learning. I am learning Japanese, and it is confusing.
Now as for writting in Japanese, I think I'll wait until I get back into college and take formal Japanese speaking/writting courses rather than try to teach myself. Teaching yourself Japanese sucks, I wouldn't suggest it.
Kuvasz
I love Pyramid Head
There is a place near China where all the words are monosyllables. Believe ot ir not, it is really hard to learn because of the difference between sound.
BTW, I'd like to learn polish (please, Yanko, don't beat on me!
) and tupi-guarani.
BTW, I'd like to learn polish (please, Yanko, don't beat on me!
) and tupi-guarani.
