I cheated myself,
like I knew I would,
I told you I was trouble,
You know that I'm no good ..
I told you I was trouble,
You know that I'm no good ..
If anyone ever says to you, "That Max Martin bloke is a pretty cool guy", then you can swiftly counter that statement with this piece of information:
He went to work, spewed hot chocolate down his white shirt when something made him laugh, accidentally set his tie on fire for the second time in a fortnight, left work wearing a jacket inside out, walked through snowy leeds in his converse, contrary to his many many past warnings, got in and played Modern Warfare 2 online for 2 hours. Then had a shower.
Hot damn, I love this game.
In keeping with this great image being presented of myself, I'm browsing the net at the moment looking for information on 'Denglisch'. I'm far too tired and unmotivated to give you a personal breakdown of it's meaning, thus: Wikipedia, I choose you! - "Denglisch is a portmanteau of the German words Deutsch and Englisch. Used in all German-speaking countries, it describes an influx of English, or pseudo-English, vocabulary into the German language through travel and English's widespread usage in advertising, business and IT . Synonyms are Gerglish, Angleutsch and Engleutsch."
This pastime gives me new reason to love the internet. It's the way that any search can be hijacked by something so brilliantly unrelated that concentration is impossible. One would think, that under the fairly non-assuming google search criteria of "effects of Denglisch", one would get fairly specific results. But no. Granted, I'm on page 10, but it's handily given me a news story dating from 2003 - ""Israeli archaeological experts said Wednesday an inscription on an ancient stone box suggesting it once contained the bones of Jesus' brother, James, was a forgery." This is from Yahoo. I've used 'search' on the entire page. It found the words 'effects' and 'of', but none of that all-important 'Denglisch'. For Christ's sake. And his brother James's, for that matter.
James? James Christ?
That's like discovering Doug Hitler. Or Brian Mussolini.
He went to work, spewed hot chocolate down his white shirt when something made him laugh, accidentally set his tie on fire for the second time in a fortnight, left work wearing a jacket inside out, walked through snowy leeds in his converse, contrary to his many many past warnings, got in and played Modern Warfare 2 online for 2 hours. Then had a shower.
Hot damn, I love this game.In keeping with this great image being presented of myself, I'm browsing the net at the moment looking for information on 'Denglisch'. I'm far too tired and unmotivated to give you a personal breakdown of it's meaning, thus: Wikipedia, I choose you! - "Denglisch is a portmanteau of the German words Deutsch and Englisch. Used in all German-speaking countries, it describes an influx of English, or pseudo-English, vocabulary into the German language through travel and English's widespread usage in advertising, business and IT . Synonyms are Gerglish, Angleutsch and Engleutsch."
This pastime gives me new reason to love the internet. It's the way that any search can be hijacked by something so brilliantly unrelated that concentration is impossible. One would think, that under the fairly non-assuming google search criteria of "effects of Denglisch", one would get fairly specific results. But no. Granted, I'm on page 10, but it's handily given me a news story dating from 2003 - ""Israeli archaeological experts said Wednesday an inscription on an ancient stone box suggesting it once contained the bones of Jesus' brother, James, was a forgery." This is from Yahoo. I've used 'search' on the entire page. It found the words 'effects' and 'of', but none of that all-important 'Denglisch'. For Christ's sake. And his brother James's, for that matter.
James? James Christ?
That's like discovering Doug Hitler. Or Brian Mussolini.
