SRXXXIII: Engelbert Humperdinck, In Memoriam

I know enough Spanish to make me look and sound just like an American.  

Well Salty left before giving links.  So I have taken it upon myself to choose a Ruins album on Grooveshark and listen in.  And heeeeeeeere weeee gooooooo....

Oh dear.

CCVP wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: June wrote: aginor wrote: tell me harmonium.ro should not french be easy to learn for you as a native romanian speaker, it is in the same language branch, its like me trying to learn, dutch or german, their must be some similaritys both in words and sound For me, Italian and Spanish are much easier to understand than Romanian, so I'm assuming it the same the other way around? Aginor's right; I understand a lot of French without any effort. In Romanian, what's not Latin from the very beginning, was borrowed from French during the modernization in the 19th century. Local influences are only in the third place (Slavonic, Turkish, Hungarian). That's obvious when you read, but when hearing it it does sound more like Portuguese and Catalan. Yeah, Romanian sounds like Italian + generic slavic sounds IMO. But I did not knew it had so much influence from French.

The purely Latin side of Romanian is a language of peasants, covering only basic activities, objects, all relating to the not every eventful life of a peasant. When modernization came every new activity, object or concept needed words, which were borrowed from French because 1) they're sister languages and 2) all the country's elite was Francophile, studying in France, living in France, etc.

For example, all the thousands of words related to medicine were borrowed and just slightly adapted to sound Romanian.

Médecine became medicină
Chirugien -> chirurg
Traitement -> tratament
Analgésique -> analgezic
Amputation -> amputare
Pédiatrie -> pediatrie

and so forth. That's what happened to Law, Engineering, theoretical and social sciences, etc.

aginor wrote: this song goes crazy prog mode at 2:27

It's just a bridge, it's not prog.

its a really cool bridge i think, but im not a super Maroon 5ve fan but some of the funkyer songs are okey, but Jamiroqua are way much better.

Epignosis wrote: Well Salty left before giving links.  So I have taken it upon myself to choose a Ruins album on Grooveshark and listen in.  And heeeeeeeere weeee gooooooo....

Sorry, I had to get lunch.  Which album did you pick?  I was going to suggest Pallaschtom, since it's got the medleys and such, so at least partially instrumental.  I'll still link that and an Art Zoyd (who I'm sure you'll probably like a bit more than Ruins).  What French Zeuhl have you tried?

SaltyJon wrote: Epignosis wrote: Well Salty left before giving links.  So I have taken it upon myself to choose a Ruins album on Grooveshark and listen in.  And heeeeeeeere weeee gooooooo.... Sorry, I had to get lunch.  Which album did you pick?  I was going to suggest Pallaschtom, since it's got the medleys and such, so at least partially instrumental.  I'll still link that and an Art Zoyd (who I'm sure you'll probably like a bit more than Ruins).  What French Zeuhl have you tried?

Symph.

French Zeuhl?  None.

Epignosis wrote: Well Salty left before giving links.  So I have taken it upon myself to choose a Ruins album on Grooveshark and listen in.  And heeeeeeeere weeee gooooooo....

I think I missed your comments regarding Supernal Endgame.  What did you think of them?

rushfan4 wrote: Epignosis wrote: Well Salty left before giving links.  So I have taken it upon myself to choose a Ruins album on Grooveshark and listen in.  And heeeeeeeere weeee gooooooo.... I think I missed your comments regarding Supernal Endgame.  What did you think of them?

Damn I keep forgetting to check them out! 

Oh Scott, have you heard of Seventh Key?