This is like arguing with my wife
"They" is me and you and anyone else who has ever listened to the song in their own preferred native language.
This is not a blame issue. This is an interpretation of lyrics issue and who they are targeted towards.
This is not about violins on television. Can I use that idiom with you? This is not an insult, just wondering if I can use that shorthand. It seems our discussions devolve into occasional misunderstandings and I think that's a very good shorthand for what happens.
And really, shouting (Full-Blown Caps) combined with insults combined with sprinkling of curses (I know it's salt and pepper to you and I try not to react, but it's simply not punctuation in my brain, it's emphasis combined with attack), is it all really required? Is the effect desired? Sigh.
I get to choose the main point of this discussion because I was asking questions about interpretation of lyrics. And the lyrics are based on the native language combined with changing the actual meaning occasionally. Changing words and multiple lines. So I wanted to know about how the audiences interpreted that and felt about that. Which I couldn't do without a native speaker.
I get to choose who "they" are because I posted and asked the questions about "them". I get to choose that. No matter how you choose to interpret, it doesn't matter.
No matter how many other comments were posted by other people and what they were talking about. That's got nothing to do with what I posted.
The people listening to the song in the distance on the radio. The different groups of people each time they changed the words. The people being manipulated by the music and the words. The people who know it's a song.
Not the imaginary people firing missiles. Or their imaginary populations. Not violins on television.
Are we done now?
This is not a blame issue. This is an interpretation of lyrics issue and who they are targeted towards.
This is not about violins on television. Can I use that idiom with you? This is not an insult, just wondering if I can use that shorthand. It seems our discussions devolve into occasional misunderstandings and I think that's a very good shorthand for what happens.
And really, shouting (Full-Blown Caps) combined with insults combined with sprinkling of curses (I know it's salt and pepper to you and I try not to react, but it's simply not punctuation in my brain, it's emphasis combined with attack), is it all really required? Is the effect desired? Sigh.
I get to choose the main point of this discussion because I was asking questions about interpretation of lyrics. And the lyrics are based on the native language combined with changing the actual meaning occasionally. Changing words and multiple lines. So I wanted to know about how the audiences interpreted that and felt about that. Which I couldn't do without a native speaker.
I get to choose who "they" are because I posted and asked the questions about "them". I get to choose that. No matter how you choose to interpret, it doesn't matter.
No matter how many other comments were posted by other people and what they were talking about. That's got nothing to do with what I posted.
The people listening to the song in the distance on the radio. The different groups of people each time they changed the words. The people being manipulated by the music and the words. The people who know it's a song.
Not the imaginary people firing missiles. Or their imaginary populations. Not violins on television.
Are we done now?
