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Old May 24, 2018, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by ArcheM View Post
I'm wondering what genius decided to allow auto subtitles in English.

Well, the link you gave is not particularly helpful, I must say. I had more success searching for "Kein Zurück" instead. This transcription - https://lyricstranslate.com/en/wolfs...ck-lyrics.html - for example, seems to list all available translations. Although, quite honestly, I wouldn't place too much faith in any of them, because there's a lot of (I think that's the term) ellipsis and other poetry in this song. For example, the line "Dass nicht jeder Abschied heißt" - a translation (at least without an extensive commentary) is almost as much use as putting any random English phrase there. Because on the surface it's nonsense, in German. Literally, "That not every parting means". Either something is missing at the end - but the next line has nothing to do with it. Or you dig into the grammar. This is a dependent clause, where the verb stands at the end. So "jeder Abschied" could be one sentence element - the subject - or several. It could be that "jeder" means "every one", and Abschied is an object. But earlier there's no mention of what that "every one" is. So you kind of have to... Well, you kind of have to go with it, as you often do with lyrics. The point is, a simple translation is likely to give you the wrong idea, especially if you're studying the language.
Okay, I'll just go with what sounds best translation wise, or post the song on Facebook and ask one of my native speaking friends go translate it. But any translation is better than none I guess.

On another note there are some songs Ive been listening to that have mixed German and English lyrics Amerika by Rammstein is one I can think of off the top of my head, it's pretty cool actually because if it's done right it sounds good.

Also I've been only listening to music in German for the last week and can only still understand bits and pieces of what I'm listening to, but lately listening to songs songs in English has been either boring me or giving me anxiety, I can't tell which it is. I think I just needed new music to listen to even if it is in another language.
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