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[StaGiors]

So I spent the last hour writing that song for my friend. It is a tough one.

I find that it is so much harder to write a song when I'm trying to. I tend to overthink, which makes everything stop flowing out. Bah.

Anyway I'm happy with the guitar work and the vocal melody, but the lyrics.. not so much. I can't remember myself ever writing lyrics that I'm proud of. Always feel like there's something missing. Ah well at least I have a couple of verses and a chorus to play with. It's enough for me to have some fun. But not enough to make the song that I want to make.

I do want to take classes on songwriting in the future. Is anyone else a lyricist or a poet? Do you guys have that "serious mode" problem?

 

[Mataresa]

Well I wouldn't call myself either, but I used to write poems frequently when I was youger, though the best always tended to be the ones of the top of my hear improvised rather than the ones I planned or thought out. But havne't done so for a while.

 

[Mataresa]

My charm and world class wit.

You are probably one of those dangerous women that are attractive, but you will burn yourself on them, but you idiot will still go for it. ^^

 

[wichat]

Is anyone else a lyricist or a poet?

I can do it quite right but only in Castillian or Catalan. For other language I used to speak in meowish... Sorry

 

[Cs__sz__r]

Is that Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad? If so I applaud your taste, damn good book.

That would be the one. It looks so out of place too, need to swap my two bookcases for a big one.

 

[SerieLis]

Listen up, Tomorrow will be the first session of the community "derp crew" and we have room for one more to make it a full team
So if anyone would like to join the session, talk to me.
I'll go over the details on private, if you are interested...

 

[StaGiors]

I can do it quite right but only in Castillian or Catalan. For other language I used to speak in meowish... Sorry

Maybe this plays it's part as well, but I only write lyrics in English. Greek lyrics sounds really stupid to my ears, which might seem weird to you, since I am Greek but it just does. It makes me feel restrained. Not enough. Which is even more weird, since the Greek language is a really complex one. Go figure. Must be because I only listen to music that is written in English.

 

[Tjerra]

. Is anyone else a lyricist or a poet?

Not exactly. Sometimes I write poems, especially when I'm sad or something's troubling me. At any other time it's more like I try to write stories. Finished one project after approx. 4 years, though, and now it's somehow hard to start something else, although I've got a ton of ideas circling around in my head.

I started with a 'stupid' poem about how life is beautiful because my friend thought aout suicide after her father's death. Later writing poems helped me to overcome my depression-like period (wasn't a real depression, though) and now ... well, sometimes it's like words coming out of me and have to be written down, even though I mostly don't understand what's about.

Wow, so you do write those songs in English? I couldn't do that, because I like playing with words and their meanings and I'm not able to do this in any other language than my own

 

[StaGiors]

Not exactly. Sometimes I write poems, especially when I'm sad or something's troubling me. At any other time it's more like I try to write stories. Finished one project after approx. 4 years, though, and now it's somehow hard to start something else, although I've got a ton of ideas circling around in my head.

I started with a 'stupid' poem about how life is beautiful because my friend thought aout suicide after her father's death. Later writing poems helped me to overcome my depression-like period (wasn't a real depression, though) and now ... well, sometimes it's like words coming out of me and have to be written down, even though I mostly don't understand what's about.

Wow, so you do write those songs in English? I couldn't do that, because I like playing with words and their meanings and I'm not able to do this in any other language than my own

Well I really liked the English language ever since I started learning it. I remember actually that I used to "think" in English ever since that period. Well maybe a bit later when I was fluent enough. It's not all the time, but I actually do "think in English". Most of the time I guess it's a weird mix of Greek and English. No control whatsoever of when I switch languages. Whatever comes naturally.

Weird huh?

 

[Tjerra]

Well I really liked the English language ever since I started learning it. I remember actually that I used to "think" in English ever since that period. Well maybe a bit later when I was fluent enough. It's not all the time, but I actually do "think in English". Most of the time I guess it's a weird mix of Greek and English. No control whatsoever of when I switch languages. Whatever comes naturally.

Weird huh?

Ah, that reminds me of my time in Poland (and some time after, while reading The Witcher books).

While learning Polish, I communicated mainly in English, therefore I stopped thinking in German after a couple of weeks, starting to think in English-Polish-whatever. I remember some dream I had in Polish, in which I replaced words I didn't know with German ones. Later it was easier, because I thought entirely in Polish, and when I returned, the whole thing started again with always trying to speak German while thinking in a different language.
That's why I hate my English lessons at school sometimes. The teacher wants me to talk, while I'm starting to think in Polish immediately when I'm supposed to speak English, which results in speaking English, adding Polish words and asking in German for the meaning of a word I have to translate from Polish into German first, because my teacher doesn't know Polish - pure chaos, krótko mówiąc.

... It happened again. Oh, these languages ...

 

[Briella]

Well I really liked the English language ever since I started learning it. I remember actually that I used to "think" in English ever since that period. Well maybe a bit later when I was fluent enough. It's not all the time, but I actually do "think in English". Most of the time I guess it's a weird mix of Greek and English. No control whatsoever of when I switch languages. Whatever comes naturally.

Weird huh?

I kinda have the same. I prefer thinking in English, mainly because it's the language I use the most (online and on Skype and such), but also because I really dislike my own language (dutch). And for the most part, the rest of the world seems to agree with me that it sounds horrible, haha. The weirdest moments are when I talk to someone in dutch, and by accident mix in a word such as "because" or "but", simply because I've thought in English while speaking. If I would start picking up writing again, I'm sure I'd do so in English as well.

 

[Alan989]

Listen up, Tomorrow will be the first session of the community "derp crew" and we have room for one more to make it a full team
So if anyone would like to join the session, talk to me.
I'll go over the details on private, if you are interested...

Come on guys, we've always said we wanted to play games together, so if you're interested in this, come on Steam and speak to @SerieLis. This could be a good way to expand the community's reach.

 

[Tjerra]

Oh, Dutch is a funny language

My sister spent her exchange year there, and when she came back she always phoned her host mother (yeah, can't remember we had Skype back then). You know, Germans tend to think they understand Dutch, because it sounds like a crazy mixture between English and German - and for me it was funny to mishear pretty everything.

 

[Sana_mia]

Oh, Dutch is a funny language

My sister spent her exchange year there, and when she came back she always phoned her host mother (yeah, can't remember we had Skype back then). You know, Germans tend to think they understand Dutch, because it sounds like a crazy mixture between English and German - and for me it was funny to mishear pretty everything.

From my experience Germans think they understand Dutch but often hear something completely wrong out of it. However most can at least read Dutch.

But be wary kids, spend enough time away from your native language and you can actually completely loose it. Whenever I talk to my family they get to pick English or German whatever they think they can understand. But my native language??? I need google translate for that, seems a bit weird considering I can switch mid sentence between English and German depending on the native language of whom I'm talking to.

Might be I wanted to really prove my teachers wrong... See Miss whatshername I really didn't need to learn my native language, forgot nearly everything.

 

[GuyNwah]

Oh, Dutch is a funny language

My sister spent her exchange year there, and when she came back she always phoned her host mother (yeah, can't remember we had Skype back then). You know, Germans tend to think they understand Dutch, because it sounds like a crazy mixture between English and German - and for me it was funny to mishear pretty everything.

I speak English and German, and to me Dutch doesn't sound much like German. It sounds like English, until I realize I just listened to a whole speech and didn't understand a word of it.

"Bûter, brea, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk."

 

[EliHarel]

I have a similarly tense relationship between English and Hebrew. After spending so many years on internet boards, RP'ing in NwN and playing text-heavy video games, I have an easier time expressing myself in English than in Hebrew. Problem is, since my written English is so much more practiced than my verbal English, I may be able to think more clearly in the language but when I speak it's not as fluid.

 

[Cs__sz__r]

Come on guys, we've always said we wanted to play games together, so if you're interested in this, come on Steam and speak to @SerieLis. This could be a good way to expand the community's reach.

Unfortunately I won't be able to make it, at all this week. Work problems.

 

[Briella]

I speak English and German, and to me Dutch doesn't sound much like German. It sounds like English, until I realize I just listened to a whole speech and didn't understand a word of it.

"Bûter, brea, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk."

Ah yeah, Frisian dutch, that's only spoken in a very small part of the country though, up north. It's a dialect the majority of dutch people will not be able to understand, unless it's written down, since the way it sounds is far from "standard" dutch.

I personally don't have much trouble understanding German. The pronounciation is quite different, but the words themselves are quite alike. Speaking it is a different story though.

 

[Elegast7]

I'm Flemish and I wish I spoke Dutch like people from the Netherlands did. There pronunciation is ten times better than ours and they make grammatically way less mistakes than us. You have ofcourse the dialect like in Friesland or some places closer to the German border. But the way they speak in provinces like Zeeland, Noord-Brabant and Zuid-Holland is way more beautiful from a linguistic perspective.
Also Dutch matches a lot with German if you start comparing individual words, but as soon as you start talking it's very difficult to understand both.

 

[Djembe]

Listen up, Tomorrow will be the first session of the community "derp crew" and we have room for one more to make it a full team
So if anyone would like to join the session, talk to me.
I'll go over the details on private, if you are interested...

I guess I could at least ask what you're playing and when?