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Weird Al's songs are not articulate masterpieces, but cheap parodies of other rap songs and rappers. He's probably somewhere around the 5,000 mark with the oth
by coherentpony 12y ago
Weird Al's songs are not articulate masterpieces, but cheap parodies of other rap songs and rappers. He's probably somewhere around the 5,000 mark with the other artists.
A cursory google on the size of the average vocabulary [1] yields an interesting fact. I'm not sure how watertight it is. I realise it's probably unfair to compare the size of the average vocabulary to that of a series of songs. Songs being shorter for one. Still, it's interesting.
- Moto7451 12y agoNot sure if that's fair to Weird Al. The people he parodies wouldn't really agree either [1]. It's not like he's doing the cheap morning show tactic of swapping clean words for dirty words or bad puns but leaving the rest of the song intact. They maintain a consistent theme which is really tough. [1] http://www.weirdalforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5673 http://www.weirdalforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5673
- coherentpony 12y agoYeah, perhaps I was a little harsh. Don't get me wrong, I like Weird Al. I probably could have phrased my comment a little better. I should have said something along the lines of, "In my experience listening to Weird Al, it doesn't feel like he explores a lot of the English language." Your link is cool, thanks for sharing that.