very fun.

-bowerbird

Very Canadian. Take an old typewriter and make a short film using it and some cheap paper.

Great!

Kurt Schwitter's "Ursonate" is definitely not the same without diacritics. This is how it's supposed to sound and look.

Thanks Sindre. I was wondering if that was the international version… :->

Ah, you're very welcome, Nina. The Anglosphere's ignorance of and even arrogance towards other languages annoys me ever so slightly. We work hard to master their language, while they think the little dots and rings and hooks and stuff we put on our letters are just some cute or quaint, inconsequential decoration.

And thanks for not mentioning my misspelling of Kurt Schwitters' name. It was just a slip, I swear.

I'll be watching your Schwitters spelling. ;-)

It seems befitting in this thread to mention the (IMO very cool) newer version spoken by Jaap Blonk, with dynamically generated type in motion by Golan Levin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgNL8-FdG-k

> The Anglosphere’s ignorance of and
> even arrogance towards other languages

that's right. we removed the umlauts from that film,
because -- frankly -- we simply didn't need them... ;+)

-bowerbird

we simply didn’t need them

hey, vho neebs w, m and d vhen v, n and b looks alnost the sane? anb capitals are for losers.

vho inbeeb? not ne!

> rrrrr beeeee bo fumms bo wo
> ziiuu ennze, ziiuu rinnzkrrmuu
> rrummpff tillff toooo

-bowerbird

The original video was removed, and I just found it again and re-linked it in the original post.

I do hope that someday increasing world prosperity and advances in machine translation will bring about a world where the speakers of other languages will share the good fortune we speakers of English now enjoy - not being forced to spend the years of arduous labor and memorization required to learn a second language.

I love learning new languages. And people who do so early
enough have brains that work better for many other tasks.

hhp

Now who can name the artist this is referencing? Without Google.