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The semantic difference would be important in a song like Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-lot, which includes both speech quotes and imperial measurements.
by jdub 6y ago
The semantic difference would be important in a song like Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-lot, which includes both speech quotes and imperial measurements.
- robin_reala 6y agoImperial measurements should use the prime symbol and not straight quotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_%28symbol%29#Designation_of_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_%28symbol%29#Designation...
- edflsafoiewq 6y agoFor lyrics, you should just transcribe the pronunciation, eg "six foot two".
- jdub 6y agoThe units are not spoken, but for clarity they should be notated in the lyrics.
- nxpnsv 6y agoI for one would impose metric... it may be harder to rap, but true talent steps up to a challenge...
- BuildTheRobots 6y ago"But I would walk 804 kilometres, And I would walk 804 more, Just to be the man who walks a 1,608 kilometres, To fall down at your door..."
- nxpnsv 6y agoIt's so catchy! Perhaps: "16093.44 meters high" by "0.2286 meter nails"...
- half-kh-hacker 6y ago1.608 megametres :^)
- jdub 6y agoThe song was released almost a year before UTF-8 was first presented at USENIX, so I think it is reasonable for the lyrics to be expressed using the commonly available technology available of the time.
- blntechie 6y agoTIL about prime symbols. Thank you!
- mrmonkeyman 6y agoNow there's a sentence you don't see everyday.
- jimbo999 6y agoMy anaconda don't want none of your poor semantics.
- tssva 6y agoSir Mix-a-lot is an American rapper so the measurements in the song are presumably in US customary system units and not imperial units.
- saalweachter 6y agoAhh, but is it US customary or US survey?
- tssva 6y agoCould you try not to be so pedantic regarding my pedantry.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoI queried for this song's lyrics, and I found only a single quoting symbol (') used entirely throughout. Taking a layperson's reading of the lyrics, I didn't find anything off due to quoting issues. If there was any disruption, it was minimal and unnoticed.