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Today's exercise for idle #linguistics scholars:
Transcribe an American pop song using only syllables allowed in another language. This is a great way to get undergrads thinking about #prosody. Here's an example using Mandarin syllable and word structure.
Tudeizi gana bizi deizi
Zi gana souyi ba tu yu
Bai nao yu shu de sama
Li'er lai wachu ga-te du
Ai dou bilize e-ni ba di
Bizi wei ai du
A, bai qi nao!
@DialMforMara gotta say I was fully prepared to be rickrolled there
@memnus nah, for that I'd have to figure out how to write "strangers" in three syllables or less without consonant clusters