{"id":262,"date":"2005-03-29T00:57:06","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/03\/2005_03_29_0057.php"},"modified":"2005-03-29T00:57:06","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T16:57:06","slug":"lost-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/29\/lost-in-translation","title":{"rendered":"Lost in translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And another post of some nonsense&#8230; this time we have some famous <em>misinterpretations<\/em> of song lyrics (which Filipino&#8217;s are so fond of doing).<\/p>\n<p>Remember those?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Elevate my mind<\/em> <code>by<\/code> MC&#8217;s Stereo\n<em>&#8220;I wanna go higher&#8230; <strong>elevator man&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;Elevate my mind&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyways, I was reading an old post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/t1moune\/56298.html\" title=\"View post\">Jowi&#8217;s<\/a> blog, which in turn led to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/your_mediocrity\/102672.html\" title=\"View post\">friend&#8217;s<\/a> blog entry. I&#8217;m listing my favorites&#8230; and I have one addition of my own, cooked up while we hung out in the Videoke (oops did I say that out loud?), I meant we were sipping some cocktails in the lobby of some fancy hotel&#8230; yeah, thats right, an <strong>expensive<\/strong> hotel.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><em>All My Life<\/em> <code>by<\/code> K-ci and Jojo\n<em>&#8220;<strong>Supposed to be<\/strong> you&#8217;re like my mother, <strong>supposed to be<\/strong> you&#8217;re like my sister&#8221;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> <strong>&#8220;close to me<\/strong> you&#8217;re like my mother&#8230; <strong>close to me<\/strong> you&#8217;re like my sister&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>Leaving On A Jet Plane<\/em> <code>by<\/code> John Denver\n<em>&#8220;so kiss me and <strong>smaffle<\/strong> me&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;so kiss me and <strong>smile for<\/strong> me&#8221;\n<code>note<\/code> What the fuck is <em>smaffle!?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>Crush<\/em> <code>by<\/code> Jennifer Paige\n<em>&#8220;<strong>i-splash<\/strong>, a little crush..&#8221;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;<strong>it&#8217;s just<\/strong> a little crush&#8221;\n<code>note<\/code> This is the most retarded thing I&#8217;ve heard. For the most part, they obviously disregarded the fact that that whole &#8220;i&#8221; prefix used in the Filipino vernacular is well, <strong>FILIPINO!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>No Scrubs<\/em> <code>by<\/code> TLC\n<em>&#8220;A scrub is a guy who thinks he&#8217;s fine but is also known as a <strong>bus stop<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;<strong>buster<\/strong>&#8221;\n<code>note<\/code> I could only imagine if that had actually caught on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>Body is a Wonderland<\/em> <code>by<\/code> John Mayer\n<em>&#8220;<strong>You&#8217;re Alice in Wonderland<\/strong>&#8230; <strong>You&#8217;re Alice in Wonderland<\/strong>; I&#8217;ll use my hands&#8221;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;<strong>Your body is a Wonderland<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>Wag Na Wag Mong Sasabihin<\/em> <code>by<\/code> Kitchie Nadal\n<strong>*&#8221;Maaaaaaaaaag, magdamag*<em> mong sasabihin&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;<\/strong>Oh&#8230; huwag na huwag** mong sasabihin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>On Bended Knees<\/em> <code>by<\/code> Boyz II Men\n<em>&#8220;Oh God give me the reason, I&#8217;m down<strong>, abandon me.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;I&#8217;m down <strong>on bended knee<\/strong>&#8221;\n<code>sarcastic note<\/code> aaah yes, first sung by the brave soldiers in Vietnam who screamed to their comrades to leave them, lest they too, be captured.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Waterfalls<\/em> <code>by<\/code> TLC\n<em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t go <strong>Jason,<\/strong> waterfalls&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;Don&#8217;t go <strong>chasin&#8217;<\/strong> waterfalls&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course, my personal addition (again, carefully thought of during a cocktail session in some fancy, expensive hotel hehehe):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Wherever You Are<\/em> <code>by<\/code> Southborder\n<em>&#8220;The wind that <strong>closed the door<\/strong>&#8230; <strong>was the window of<\/strong> my love.&#8221;<\/em>\n<code>should be<\/code> &#8220;The wind that <strong>blows the dove<\/strong>&#8230; <strong>is the wind that blows<\/strong> my love.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>tadug-tsssssss<\/em> (that was supposed to be the sound of a drum punchline)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another post of some nonsense&#8230; this time we have some famous misinterpretations of song lyrics (which Filipino&#8217;s are so fond of doing). Remember those? Elevate my mind by MC&#8217;s Stereo &#8220;I wanna go higher&#8230; elevator man&#8221; should be &#8220;Elevate my mind&#8221; Anyways, I was reading an old post from Jowi&#8217;s blog, which in turn &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/29\/lost-in-translation\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lost in translation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[712,1094],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonsense","tag-lyrics","tag-songs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}