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Originally Posted by dreamcrushed
Well, that depends on how one defines "substance". There are many extremely popular songs in every language that fit this description (and I know you're not saying "only in America" do these things apply).
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That's true, there are some. I won't make the blanket statement that there aren't ANY songs with substance, but I will say, generally, it's not about what they're saying as to how it sounds.
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Originally Posted by dreamcrushed
I disagree with your general point about English being hard to work with. As a general point with these "most other languages", the sounds which they employ aren't all conducive to "flow and beauty" either; making a generalization about "most other languages" really isn't the wisest thing to do. All modern languages are in some ways mutilated love children of former "live" languages. I'm thinking you have the Romance languages in mind; am I correct? Even in those cases, I wouldn't agree with your point about "flow and beauty".
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I know the POINT isn't "flow and beauty" my POINT is that other languages flow so much better than English. The way other languages work is vastly different than English. For example, in the Japanese language, the only consonant sound that a word can end in is "n." The rest of the words end in vowel sounds, which lends itself so much easier to rhyme.
NO language on Earth is as warped, confusing, and all around mutated as the English language. That's a fact. The English language has so many rules and so many exceptions to those rules that it's very complicated to work with. We take for granted how we just know English, but even we can't name the "right" ways to use it in most occasions. Therefore, it makes poetry, song lyrics, much much more difficult.