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01 July 2006

On The Radio/Regina Spektor (windows video) "This is how it works..."

beautiful, and odd in a great way : >

post by: amberglow at: 14:33 | 8 comments

Beautiful and sweet. Or maybe my biorhythms intersected.

I thought it was going to be a Langley Schools project thing at first ...

posted by stilicho 01 July | 16:25

isn't it? (there's a torrent of the album--i'm getting it bec of that song)

posted by amberglow 01 July | 17:21

Yeah, nice. Writing the vowels on the chalkboard reminded that in catholic school we were taught "A,E,I,O,Y, and sometimes Y and W."

But when I asked what word had W for a vowel, no one had an answer. I guess the real lesson was blind faith in dogma.

posted by StickyCarpet 01 July | 19:49

'How' is phonetically equivalent to 'hou.' And there are some words in Welsh that use 'w' as a vowel, for what that's worth.

posted by box 01 July | 20:33

i never heard W--maybe that's just a British Isles thing? "sometimes Y" was the end of that for us, but even in school they rarely/never included Y. I thought it was a shoutout to that IBN/OZN video/song, and the school thing.

posted by amberglow 01 July | 22:35

She's so cuuuuute. Too much makeup on in the video, but I saw her live two or three years ago and she had the widest smile. You could tell she was loving every minute of her performance. I'm so glad she's becoming well-known, because, well, she just seemed so darn nice.

posted by Eideteker 02 July | 00:38

W and Y are referred to as semivowels, FWIW.

posted by Eideteker 02 July | 00:39

Adding the "W" was supposed to show that the Catholic school education was more complete than the public school education.

posted by StickyCarpet 02 July | 08:31

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