Know Your Meme: Phonetic Translations

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Uploaded by on May 19, 2011

Know Your Meme scientist Jamie Dubs explains the art of Phonetic Translation, or the practice of transcribing foreign lyrics into another language by their proximity in phonetics, mainly for comedic effect.

For more: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/phonetic-translations

Literal Music Videos are similar in form, but instead use newly recorded audio to interpret the visuals of the video.

For more: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/literal-music-videos

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  • caption translation:

    rainbow dash, you have to hide your feelings for me

    lol

  • Fuck yearh!!!

    Benny Lava FTW!!!

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  • Equality sticker at 1:51! :D

  • 7th Brony!

  • misheard lyrics of master of puppets: controlling daxter! i've made your hamster your life nerds faster ive made your hamster,hamster! hamster of muppets im dulling your sting! trusting your mint and mashing your cream! climbed by me you can sea thing!
  • To be fair, Eddie Vedder Doesn't know what the fuck he's saying.

  • TRIFORCE

  • i need that damn screensave...

  • " Have you been high today?? I see the nuns are gay..."

    HAHA...TROLOLOL XD

  • Coldplay - Yellow, sounds in danish like they sing "Oh yeah, I shat, I shat a hobo"

  • MoThErFuCkIn MiRaClEs

  • I am Dutch and I didn't even understand what they say!

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