A quick one today...
Back in fifth grade, a teacher told my class how we would all have to take a foreign language in high school. We would even be required to write essays in that language. I remember thinking that other languages were like a code. For example, garden would still be garden in Latin, but you just substitute the Latin letters in for the English. I had no idea that there would be totally different structures of speech, and completely unrelated words that meant the same thing. Needless to say, I was very disappointed in my first Latin class.
Anyone who regularly reads Neat-o-Rama or spends a lot of time on YouTube has probably seen some hilarious Indian versions of things, like the Indian Beatles or the Thriller knockoff. The latest hilarity comes in the form of a YouTube member named Buffalax who adds homophonic English subtitles to these videos. It's a new spin on making fun of people who regularly butcher lyrics in English songs--let's put embarrassing words in the mouth of foreigners!!!
I think that both of these were taken from Bollywood musicals (I know the first one was). I found these to be as funny for the dancing as for the lyrics:
The Benny Lava Song
and the newly subtitled Indian Thriller...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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The thriller video is disturbing - putting up the real lyrics is probably just as funny.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the creepy guy at the wedding reception with the bad breath and no perception of personal space who can only do versions of the chicken dance, only he got a vinyl suite and a choreographer who only knows the chicken dance and saw MTV re-runs from the 80s, and somehow got to make his own video. Plus, where did the corn field come from? Clearly a step down in production from the first video in this post.