Apple has ruined the word song

[Contratrombone64]

"to speak correct English" ... surely you mean: "to speak English correctly".

 

[Dorsetmike]

"to speak correct English" ... surely you mean: "to speak English correctly".

Mike - yep, you're right, so instead of just nitpicking, why not offer a solution?

Now who's nitpicking? :grin:

 

[teddy]

Bloody colonials, coming over here, taking our language, not to mention the p&&&.

teddy

 

[mathetes1963]

Ya'll caint tawk no gud Anglish ovur thar. 'N now I'ma lissen me anudder song from dat J.S. Batch feller...

Seriously, it's hopeless...all you can do is laugh.

 

[JHC]

Bloody colonials, coming over here, taking our language, not to mention the p&&&.

teddy

Yeh, it takes the bikki when an ocker tells a pom how to speak proper:lol:

 

[Marc]

Don't blame Apple, blame Mendelssong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_Without_Words

 

[Contratrombone64]

A very interesting observation, Marc my friend. Never thought of that!

 

[Darena]

Yeah, that's great, never thought Mendelssohn has something to do with it!

As for me, I'm more disturbed than someone calls a song 'track'. It's far worse than the original matter with Apple, because that's derogatory towards one's (hard) work. A term of 'song' involves soul or something...and 'track' sounds mechanic and lifeless to me. As a special term it is OK - in sound engineering and deejaying you mix the tracks. The problem is, there is no universal and suitable word. You see, instrumental composition is a piece, but if it is electronic, it also sounds weird to say it is a piece even though there was more effort put in it to use the generic 'track'...