it might be that my lyrics still needs some improvement in its scanning. No, I just sang your lyrics while listening to Träsk's Swedish, and the match is almost perfect — allowing for routine oral-transmission variations, and the extension I suggested of v.1 l.5. I'm not criticizing Dickens's version, but it's different, and not helpful for this purpose.
(BTW, even apart from that, I found it a lot easier to sing your English lyrics along with a language I don't know: less distraction!)
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Date: 2014-11-19 06:16 pm (UTC)No, I just sang your lyrics while listening to Träsk's Swedish, and the match is almost perfect — allowing for routine oral-transmission variations, and the extension I suggested of v.1 l.5. I'm not criticizing Dickens's version, but it's different, and not helpful for this purpose.
(BTW, even apart from that, I found it a lot easier to sing your English lyrics along with a language I don't know: less distraction!)