Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: I can't understand a word

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Paul Simon is introducing a song. He says that it was a very bad what?
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 Paul Simon is introducing a song. He says that it was a very bad what?
I whish I had the whole sentence - to me it sounds like he says "I thought
that was a very bad eulogy.." and then something else which is cut off.
Could it be?
Could you get the rest?

 [...] Gli è che degli inglesi affamati mi hanno chiesto di preparare un
risotto per un centinaio di persone. [...] pericoli? [...]
Che la pentola ti cada addosso sotterrandoti. (sai che speciale di Studio
Aperto che viene fuori)
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 nor "eulity" exist. Now I'm sure it's "eulogy", 
Definitions of  eulogy on the Web:
    * encomium: a formal expression of praise
 
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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Enrico C
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Paul Simon is introducing a song. He says that it was a very bad what?
It sounds like "uniatism" to me.

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Ma anche "elogio funebre". Hmm, it doesn't sound "eulogy" any more. I keep
hearing [ju:lItI<something>].
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 hearing [ju:lItI<something>].
Not sure, but it sounds to me like "I thought that was a great band.
Eulogy it isn't."
Does that make sense in the context?
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Sounds to me like ' I thought that was a very bad ...eulogy , is it?' (as 
though he hesitated , wondering whether 'eulogy' was the right word ). Free 
of context , anything is possible ...
Mike 

 Ma anche "elogio funebre".
Yes - OT , but we've just had a great fuss in England because one of the 
people invited to give a 'eulogy' at the funeral of former Foreign Secretary 
Robin Cook (who resigned over Iraq) used the occasion to pour scorn on Tony 
Blair (on holiday abroad) for not attending.
Mike 

 Free of context , anything is possible ...
I've supplied an audio file with all P. Simon says. He says it before the
song "A Most Peculiar Man", whose text, I'm sure, is available on the
Internet.
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 I've supplied an audio file with all P. Simon says.
Ah! I've just listened to that (much clearer) and it is definitely what I 
said . I think in fact 'eulogy' (meaning 'elogio funebre') maybe wasn't 
quite the word he wanted - most probably 'obituary' was what he was looking 
for (just possibly 'epitaph') ;  that's the word we use for an article in 
the newspaper recording the death of a prominent person , usually with a 
brief biography and summary of his achievements , and here he was referring 
to 'four lines in a newspaper' on the suicide of this chap . 'Eulogy' is 
normally used for a spoken tribute .
Mike 


«Paul Simon: This is a song called 'A Most Peculiar Man', this is a
song that I wrote when I was living in London, and the seeds of the
song were planted one day when I read an article in a paper about a
man who had committed suicide, four lines in a paper, a little black
box, and I thought that was a very bad eulogy, so, this is called 'A
Most Peculiar Man'. »
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Googling is cheating! That wasn't fair! ;-DDD
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It's right. It was because of the speakers of my Mac. With the headphones
it's definitely "eulogy".
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