Do you think that people say "i don't like to sing" or "i'm uncomfortable singing" because they aren't forced into it? I mean people don't like to hear their own voice. If we weren't forced to talk in our society, would we want to talk?
The people that do sing a lot are people that have forced THEMSELVES to sing a lot. I know that I wanted to write songs. I don't believe that I was born with a good voice, I had to practice. I forced myself to learn how to sing because I wanted to be in the culture of music.
So in a culture, like many Asian cultures, where the language consists of (quite literally) hitting several pitches in order to convey a word, people don't feel uncomfortable. haha and they LOVE karaoke (don't pay attention to this sentence).
"So in the English language, we're syntactically restrained. We're just really, really structured. We have our defined subjective and objective, but for the Chinese it's switched around. Like you could say the same word but different pitches and it would mean a million things."- Justin
food to munch on with your brain,
-andy
Friday, March 12, 2010
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theres some bubble gum for you to chew on
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