Planet Earth


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Isn’t it beautiful? -via Living the Scientific Life

@ Alison

Jónsi also sings in a language called "Vonlenska", also known as "Hopelandic", which is a constructed language of nonsense syllables which resembles the phonology of the Icelandic language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vonlenska

The lyrics on the Sigur Rós album titled "( )" is all in "Volenska". The rest of the album features a mixture of the 2.
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Not Icelandic. Sigur Rós employ an invented language they, rather emetically, call Hopelandic. The one lapse in good taste for a band whose only major flaw could be said to be too much good taste.
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No, it's ugly as fuck, now.

Look at what we've done to the North American continent.

If we had left it alone and let it be naturally re-juvenated by the Natives as they had done, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Yet we put value on stupid shiny metals like gold and fucked the whole planet basing our values on being blind.
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Good grief, can't some of you just enjoy something? Get a freaking grip and stop hating yourselves. If it means that much to you, do something to fix it. Don't sit around whining in the comments about how screwed up humanity is.

Sheesh.

--TwoDragons
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