idiomaddict

English is a stress based language (if you heard a peanuts-style audio blurrer, you’d still hear regular ups and downs, whereas Spanish would sound monotone), so English speakers rely on that emphasis to determine where one word ends and another begins. When we sing, we lose a lot of the stress indicators, so it’s pretty common for songs in stress based languages to be misunderstood.

Plus people get audiologically confused by all the sounds in any language

Speaking of 9/11 and tone deafness, you know what surprisingly didn’t fly over peoples heads?

Maybe someone typed the wrong email address