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As a Swedish person, this was a delightful read. Even if I don't care much for the particular songs analyzed here. When I hear these types of slip-ups or mistak
by estomagordo 8y ago
As a Swedish person, this was a delightful read. Even if I don't care much for the particular songs analyzed here. When I hear these types of slip-ups or mistakes from Swedish song-writers, I tend to either cringe a little (i.e. Jenny Wilson's "It's ok, come on, I won't do the things they learned me" from Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward), or find it to be delightfully naïve (i.e. "I called you, she answered
Got strangled on the way" from The Concretes "New Friend"). Very much a question of personal preference, of course.
But I never really thought of the Ace of Base in the pregnancy context. Humbling for me for sure.
- evincarofautumn 8y agoI’m not familiar with the song, but going by lyrics alone, “I won’t do the things they learned me” is accidentally spot-on for native speakers of some dialects of English where “learn” can also mean “teach”, e.g., “That’ll learn him to mess with me!” (= “That will teach him that he shouldn’t mess with me”). To native speakers in general, it comes off as adding a bit of old-fashioned/country flavour.
- estomagordo 8y agoThanks for pointing that out. As much as I pick up aspects of an English dialect here or there, I'm sure there are many more similar things I just don't know. If I heard a native speaker say the above, I would assume they were a bit uneducated, that it's a sociolect kind of thing.