IHIVG
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- Dec 18, 2009
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- Interested in Language
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- Russian
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- Russian Federation
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- Russian Federation
Usually I find songs a bit harder to follow word-for-word than the news programmes or day-to-day talk (perhaps because TV usually has a lot more context than the more poetic lyrics).
What is surprising though, is that there can be up to five (!) interpretations of the same song lyrics on the Web, which made me think that some ambiguous bits sometimes remain unclear even to the native speakers!
Later on, I saw that there are actually entire websites dedicated to misheard lyrics.
I find this all quite interesting, because in my language we seem to be completely without this phenomenon of mishearing the words. It's unlikely that you will confuse the words with each other, unless you are a kid or you really don't know or never heard of the word before.
So, the question is, is it really that common in English as it seems to be? Does that happen to you? If so, how often?
I'd like to hear your opinions.
Thanks!
P.S. Non-English speakers, please chime in -- I'd also love to hear whether something similar exists or not in your languages (I hope moderators wouldn't call it ‘the great off-topic’).
P.P.S I’m only talking about the possible mishearing/misinterpretation of the songs that aren’t riddled with opaque ‘gangsta’ or whatever incomprehensible slang and DO make sense.
What is surprising though, is that there can be up to five (!) interpretations of the same song lyrics on the Web, which made me think that some ambiguous bits sometimes remain unclear even to the native speakers!
Later on, I saw that there are actually entire websites dedicated to misheard lyrics.
I find this all quite interesting, because in my language we seem to be completely without this phenomenon of mishearing the words. It's unlikely that you will confuse the words with each other, unless you are a kid or you really don't know or never heard of the word before.
So, the question is, is it really that common in English as it seems to be? Does that happen to you? If so, how often?
I'd like to hear your opinions.
Thanks!
P.S. Non-English speakers, please chime in -- I'd also love to hear whether something similar exists or not in your languages (I hope moderators wouldn't call it ‘the great off-topic’).
P.P.S I’m only talking about the possible mishearing/misinterpretation of the songs that aren’t riddled with opaque ‘gangsta’ or whatever incomprehensible slang and DO make sense.