Babel Beatles X: Anna (Go To Him)

Anna
You just wonder girl
To free you, darling
You say he loves you more than me
Then I’ll set you free
Go with him
Go with him

Anna
Girl, before you go now
I wish this
Still I love you so
But if you like Mo ‘
Go with him

All my life
I’m looking for a girl
For the love that I love you
Ah, now .. But all the girls I’ve ever had
It breaks my heart and makes me sad
What are they, what
Oh …

Anna
One last thing, baby
Please send your ring to me, and I will set you free
Go with him
You can go with her daughter
Go with him

(Entrada número 10 en el proyecto Babel Beatles)

El caos de la pronunciación en inglés

Clásico poema que denuncia la complicada tarea de aprender la correcta pronunciación de ciertas palabras en inglés. Un pequeño extracto, para mostrar de qué se trata:

Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. 

I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. 

Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.

Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it’s written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say - said, pay - paid, laid but plaid.

(vía)

Babel Beatles IX: And Your Bird Can Sing

I tell you everything you want
And your bird can sing
But you do not understand me, I got

You say you’ve seen seven wonders and your bird is green
But I see I see

If your valuables are beginning to weigh
Look at me, I

When your bird is broken you
You can stay awake, I

You say you have heard all the sounds
And your bird can swing
But you can not hear me, you can not hear

(Entrada número 9 en el proyecto Babel Beatles)

Este profano video acerca de una potencial compradora del iPhone 4 y su amigable interacción con un vendedor que intenta convencerla de las bondades del HTC Evo 4G me hizo atragantar de la risa (“I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t care.”). Para balancear las cosas, acá va un clip que se enfoca en la situación inversa.

Ambos clips son obra de Brian Maupin, autor del webcomic Also Coin Operated, y fueron creados con Xtranormal. (vía)