I really like studying etymology and the origins of words, and I'm interested in the fairly omnivorous nature of English, which has a huge "borrowed" vocabulary. (Random fact: "bugger" is related to "Bulgaria".) So I thought every now and then I'd put up random lists of words English borrows from various languages - well, besides French, German, and Spanish, or I'll exhaust myself from typing. I thought I'd start with Malay, national language of Singapore. Wikipedia already has a partial list , but I thought I'd come up with a list that also included a few other loan words. The obvious ones are words for things that are indigenous to the region - plants (durian, rambutan, bamboo, sago, camphor ), animals (orang-utan, pangolin, cassowary), and cloth ( gingham , sarong). But there's a whole bunch that're less obvious, even to native English speakers from this region: amok . If you asked me to name one English loan word that'
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Right after the break at 4:19, Jerry C ascends in a scalar fashion to the climax and FunTwo will skip intervalically to the climax.
Tonally, Jerry C uses darker tonality and FunTwo has chosen a brighter tonality.
There are many facits of the musicality of these two excellent performances.
I would like to see more analysis of these artists' interpretations of the Canon Rock from Pachelbel's Canon.
Baby it's the guitar man.
Who's gonna steal the show, you know
Baby it's the guitar man...
What do you think about this version?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6pgKwEOyok