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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I always found the idea of singing in a tonal language weird. I guess it works though.
Only if the verse is carefully written.
Yeah. I'm guessing it's harder to write songs in tonal languages.
You kinda shift the entire pitch of your voice so that the words are still, relative to each other, have the tones and it's distinguishable to a native speaker intuitively.
Its easier in Cantonese, 6 tones, you can play around with words to make the tones go high or low, the tones don't change much from what I've noticed in Cantonese songs, yo es sounds almost the same as spoken. In Mandarin, 4 tones, and the tones are much lower and deeper in the sounds, you just have to change the tones a lot to make it higher pitched, you rarely pronunce the tones as-is. Still understandable.
Hey, thanks. That makes sense.