As long as we're asking technical questions... What effect, if any, would a different-language cover of a song that Doug knows have? He might not understand the words, but he knows what they should mean anyway. Would that knowledge be enough to trigger the metagift?
I ask this because CBC Radio 1 recently played a couple of covers of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine - one in Latin, the other in Gaelic. (No, they didn't provide information on how to track down copies.) There's also the Portugese covers of various Bowie songs in the recent movie An Aquatic Life...
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I ask this because CBC Radio 1 recently played a couple of covers of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine - one in Latin, the other in Gaelic. (No, they didn't provide information on how to track down copies.) There's also the Portugese covers of various Bowie songs in the recent movie An Aquatic Life...
-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012