The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71650   Message #2160305
Posted By: Fastauntie
30-Sep-07 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Proshchai/Proshchay (from the Limeliters)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Proshchai/Proshchay by the Limeliter
Wow! I posted to this thread after a three-year gap and Joe replied in fifteen minutes. I am impressed.

Can't tell you how good it feels to have the real words. As I mentioned before, I've been singing them (and a few other songs like the Monks of St. Bernard) incessantly, in order to get rid of what I call the "Go stick your head in a pig syndrome." (A phrase taken from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which there's a reference to a giant sign with a company slogan, "Share and enjoy," which after being partly destroyed appeared to read in another language "Go stick your head in a pig." I've always thought it a useful shorthand for the pitfalls of mispronouncing foreign languages.)