Don't put the magic hat on Frosty

[cyrano]

Spent much of the morning building new playlists for the Sims2 radios, and it amused me muchly to restructure the 'hiphop' channel with Frank Sinatra, Max Raabe, Richard Cheese, Doris Day and the like.
Looks like I'm going to run to the store(s) quickly, feed the starving cats and then see if I can cram three movies into the evening. I'm going to have a serious case of church ass.
Remembered to call my mom finally.
Will somebody tell me why, if I don't like rap, I like this? Maybe if I can't understand the inane things they're saying I like it just fine. Although... no, even when they're American I usually can't understand the inane things they're saying. (As an aside--maybe some of my linguistic friends know. The Slovene alphabet has characters, specifically C S and Z, that sometimes come with a little Nike swoosh over them, like ^ but upside down and rounder. How is that character pronounced? Right now I'm going with 'ch' 'sh' and 'zh'.)

Comments

[carabosse.livejournal.com]

You're right. That symbol usually indicates that the letter is modified with an "h" sound, so ch / sh/ zh. I learned the mark to be called a hacek (with said symbol over the 'c') but that's in Czech or a chiriklo, which is Romani. The English word 'caron' is starting to see greater popularity, though.

As to rap, it might be because the musicians are influenced by a wider ranger of music and that shows up in their work. Sometimes it's the nature of the language itself. For instance, I really like a lot of French rap because the music often has a North African flavor to it and the sounds of French are pleasing to me. The lyrics, though, are as variable as in English. Some rap is inane, just like some rock. It's a matter of learning your tastes in a genre and then expanding within that subset. :-)

[esmerel.livejournal.com]

SQUEEHEHEHEHEHE katamari music!