Are Slavic languages getting deeper?
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Topic: Are Slavic languages getting deeper?
Posted By: Mila
Subject: Are Slavic languages getting deeper?
Date Posted: 29-May-2006 at 09:39
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Listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2poJ8fG4r_A - this song
made me wonder, are Slavic languages getting deeper? When the first
woman sings, the first thing that came to my mind is "Oh my God, what a
hick!". The second woman sings and I think: "Pfft...city girl, but
barely". The third girl gives me more or less the same feeling as the
first. Now I realize South Slavs have, by comparrison, exceptionally deep, low-pitch languages compared to our northern cousins. But I find, listening to music from other regions and seeing their interviews on the news, television shows, and all these sorts of things - our languages are getting deeper. You hear the high-pitch, nasal accent in Bosnia and you immediately associate that voice with a woman who is easily 60 years old. You hear a deep, raspy voice that people in the West would think of a 70-year-old smoker instantly, I think of a beautiful 30 year old. I notice with Ukrainian music I hear that it tends to be deeper when singing and still fairly high pitch when spoken, Russian seems to have the same differences for age and rural/urban that Bosnia does, but their differences are set an octave higher. Do you think it's actually changing? Could there have been a Donna Ares or a Colonia 100 years ago, or would they all have been a Lily Galic and a Selma Bajrami? ------------- |
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Posted By: Mila
Date Posted: 29-May-2006 at 09:54
Here, made a demonstration.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MA-Pi1dSI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MA-Pi1dSI [EDIT: In case it's not clear, it's all women ]------------- |