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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:53am on 2004-09-01

FWIW, did make it to half of rehearsal since my last entry but none of my other destinations yet; started to answer some of the email backlog when I got home but had to take a detour into "collect the calendar notes and put them in the calendar" land -- might have some bass-playing to do -- and started feeling all crashy again. Body thinks it's a yo-yo; going to go lie down now. But first, a question that popped into my head the last time I stood up:

When singing, "We may lose and we may win / But we will never be here again / So open up, I'm climbin' in / So take it easy," do you feel the need to use the "agin" pronounciation of "again" even if that's not how it's said in your normal speaking accent (or whether it's sung that way on the album)?

[... totters off to bed mumbling, "take it easy take it easy don't every let body the got sound something of to your hide own 'cept wheels for drive me you and crazy my monkey" (which would be far easier for a Pierson's Puppeteer to sing than for a human) ... damned forking earworm ...]

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posted by [identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com at 04:47am on 2004-09-01
I don't sing it "agin" but my normal, NY pronounciation is closer to "agen".

I wonder about a Canadian singing it, though.
 
posted by [identity profile] texas-tiger.livejournal.com at 05:28am on 2004-09-01
take it easy...take it easy...don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy...

But in answer to your question, no. I'm pretty sure I pronounce it "again".
 
posted by [identity profile] mammasteed.livejournal.com at 02:52pm on 2004-09-01
I'm not familiar with that particular song, but in general, when *I* sing a song, I generally try my damndest to make it sound *exactly* like the artist who first sang the song to me made it sound. (I usually fail in that attempt, but I really do try.) That includes, of course, pronouncing words exactly the way the original singer pronounced them.
 
posted by [identity profile] selki.livejournal.com at 08:15pm on 2004-09-01
Agin. When I'm singing that song.

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