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| dleewo Groupie United States Joined 5809 days ago 95 posts - 131 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 1 of 5 24 May 2011 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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Lady Gaga's new album has a song titled Scheiße.
In the beginning, she says "I don't speak German, but I can if you like" and then proceed to sing a verse of something that "sounds" German in parts, but if I look at the lyrics, doesn't seem to be all German. Here are the lyrics from the booklet that comes with the album: 
Is this German and a mixture of a bunch of other languages? That is, is it basically gibberish? Edited by dleewo on 24 May 2011 at 12:20am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Keilan Senior Member Canada Joined 5077 days ago 125 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 2 of 5 24 May 2011 at 12:44am | IP Logged |
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To give my very critical review, it seems to be an excuse to use a curse word in another language. I don't recognize many of the words, besides obvious ones like "Ich".
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6430 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 5 24 May 2011 at 1:00am | IP Logged |
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It's thoroughly gibberish. A few of the words are German. 'Ich' means 'I', Scheiße is a cognate of the English word 'shit', 'fräulein' means 'young lady', etc.
The rest is quite a mix. 'Madre' is 'mother' in some Romance languages, 'monstère' is 'monster' in French, 'clair' is 'light/clear' in French, and 'üske' is Hungarian for 'thorn'. 'Begun' is an English word. Some words are short enough to be ambiguous; 'aus' is a German preposition, while 'aus-be' and 'aus-can-be' look like an incoherent mix of German and English. I can't judge whether or not 'flaugen' is meant to be Icelandic, or 'uske' Basque - they are words, but they're short enough that they could perfectly well just be nonsense that fits the rhythm and sound. One of the most interesting words is 'schleiban'. 'Schlei' looks like the start of several German words, while -ban is a Hungarian case ending (for the inessive case). Perhaps 'kumpent' is similar, with a different pair of languages. But, in short, it's gibberish. Even reading almost all of the languages it's a mixture of, it still means nothing. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| dleewo Groupie United States Joined 5809 days ago 95 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 4 of 5 24 May 2011 at 1:11am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Volte for the info on the various words and languages.
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| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5041 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 5 of 5 24 May 2011 at 5:42am | IP Logged |
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Ya thanks so much that was interesting to know.
Ya, personally I find the song annoying and some people just shouldn't even try to sing in German... or gibberish, yes Lady Gaga is one of them. But then again I don't have money coming out my rear from an overrated singing career and completely outrageous outfits...And I agree Keilan, I also think it's just an excuse to get by the censors with a foreign language... "I don't speak German but I wish I could..." well you can't so don't! 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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