# Choir practice in 3 languages - 2 of them human

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 16, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choir-practice-in-3-languages-2-of-them-human/245495 "2004-05-16T23:20:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choir-practice-in-3-languages-2-of-them-human/245495/21 "2004-05-18T04:17:43Z")

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> [@av8rmike](#):
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> I’m curious as to how the OP’s chorus got a hold of the Howard Shore music!

We’ll be doing four performances of the _Lord of the Rings Symphony_. Howard Shore himself will be conducting the performances. I presume that my choir obtained copies of the score directly from Mr Shore and his management according to the normal music licensing / contractual arrangements for commercial performances.

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**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choir-practice-in-3-languages-2-of-them-human/245495/22 "2004-05-18T04:28:01Z")

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The only languages other than English that we ever sang in (in high school chorus) were Latin, French, Yiddish, and Ebonics. No, really. We sang “Ezekiel Saw The Wheel” and the choir director insisted we sing it in these horrible Sambo accents. 100 white kids from upstate New York, singing “uh-zeek-ull saw da wheel, way up in da mi’d’l’ o’ da air” like … like … like some kind of awful black-faced vaudeville performers. It was degrading to everyone and everything involved, and moreover we sounded terrible.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choir-practice-in-3-languages-2-of-them-human/245495/23 "2004-05-18T04:34:11Z")

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Dude, your choir’s singing _Styx_? “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto”—what language’s that?  
😛

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choir-practice-in-3-languages-2-of-them-human/245495/24 "2004-05-18T06:44:57Z")

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> [@Thudlow Boink](#):
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> “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto”—what language’s that?  
> 😛

It sounds to me like the Japanese for “thanks very much”.

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