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frik
@frik

Has it ever happened to you that you get a song stuck in your head, and start listening to it over and over... After a few days, you try picking up the lyrics so you can sing it out loud in the kitchen, because, let's be honest, only knowing the chorus is getting kinda repetitive.
And as you start getting more and more verses, it goes from "a catchy melody" to "a beautiful song about letting go, about accepting change, about acknowledging that nothing is forever, and that sometimes it's you who has to break whatever's holding you back and move on; and most importantly, you don't have to be sad about it, because every time a chapter ends, another begins."

But, like, english is not your first language; you aren't from the U S of A; you're from fucking Vil·ladelmig, in the middle of Enlloclàndia. So there are some verses that you still don't undertand. Not cause you don'k know those words, but its meaning within the song. Whatever, must be a reference to something in that guy's county, it won't change the song's message.

So, sometime passes, and you decide to look up what are those verses actually talking about.
And you realize.
The whole song. Is about a fucking football stadium.


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We have so many football stadiums. Even if you consider only ones with significant history to millions of people one is getting knocked down every decade or so, and Bruce has been singing a lot longer than that.

But also I don’t think I ever heard that song haha. To be fair I was culturally living under a rock in that time period. The most mainstream thing I was doing was watching ponies.

Vil·ladelmig, in the middle of Enlloclàndia

Okay this is fun though. Seems pretty Latin influenced (“vil” is all over former Roman lands), but not in a familiar way to me, so maybe Romania? That -ig ending makes me think Sweden or Norway, though… well if it’s somewhere with competing German and Latin influences maybe it’s Switzerland or Belgium

So really I have no fucking clue rofl. Care to give another hint?

Iberian! So we’re down to Basque, Catalan, Occitan (maybe?), Astur-Leonese, or, like, Castilian lol which I would be embarrassed about but is definitely still possible. (Maybe Andorran too actually, if that’s not considered Catalan.)

Okay, I’ve never seen the downward accent mark in Castilian though, that makes me feel a little better. Basque doesn’t seem to use any accent marking at all in Latin script. So I’m going with Catalan, did I get it?

Oh goodness I just ignored all of Portugal on a hunch rofl, but like Portuguese is usually very distinctive in spellings, I really doubt it

There’s no way it’s Catalan. Catalan actually uses y for sounds like ll and ia, right? I don’t know what I was thinking. So unless Occitan, which seems very unlikely, Astur-Leonese then? Or something I’ve never heard of.

Man I got nerd sniped hard here rofl

It is Catalan! Vil·ladelmig would roughly translate as "In-the-middle-ville" (and also a reference to an old detergent TV ad), and Enlloclàndia as "Nowhereland".
And as a few remarks, Andorran is not a language, they speak Catalan and French (and Spanish too because tourism), and Basque is a completely unrelated language which nobody knows where it comes from, so if it looks latin, it's not Basque!

Right I only considered Basque because location and the potential that we hit only words borrowed from surrounding languages haha.

Cool! thank you for indulging my linguistic nerdery for a second. :)

edit: haha I figured it'd be all over your profile so I deliberately didn't look until just now, and I was right