After all, most of us can spot a Folk Song, or a song aspiring to be a Folk Song, when we hear it - just as most of us can tell if a person is speaking French or German even if we can't understand what they're actually saying. ~~ S'OP
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I would commend this as a most noteworthy & valuable point {emerging from it must be admitted, a certain quantity of quasi-redundant verbiage}.