FacebookTwitter
Hatrack River Forum   
my profile login | search | faq | forum home

  next oldest topic   next newest topic
» Hatrack River Forum » Active Forums » Books, Films, Food and Culture » How would you fare on French radio?

   
Author Topic: How would you fare on French radio?
Annie
Member
Member # 295

 - posted      Profile for Annie   Email Annie         Edit/Delete Post 
Here is what I did for today's bonehead math exercise (I need those every once in awhile):

French radio must play at least 40% of their music in French. It made me wonder what percent of my music was in various languages. I only used the music on my iTunes playlist - heaven knows my CD collection would be a far more intensive math exercise. My rules were: each song got one tally mark, unless the song was in more than one language, in which case it got one tally mark in each language. (I figure it's ok to weight them thus and give them props for being bilingual. It didn't happen too often anyway)

The results are as follows, for a total of 491 songs:

English - 241 songs, 49.1%
French - 79 songs, 16.1%
Instrumental - 66 songs, 13.4%
Spanish - 50 songs, 10.2%
Arabic - 14 songs, 2.9%
Unknown Scandinavian - 8 songs, 1.6%
Hindi - 4 songs, .8%
Irish - 4 songs, .8%
Portuguese - 4 songs, .8%
Turkish - 4 songs, .8%
Swedish - 3 songs, .6%
German - 2 songs, .4%
Greek - 2 songs, .4%
Swahili - 2 songs, .4%
Tibetan - 2 songs, .4%
Breton - 1 song, .2%
Finnish - 1 song, .2%
Hopi - 1 song, .2%
Occitan - 1 song, .2%
Unknown African (Mali - supposed French creole)) - 1 song, .2%
Unknown Indian - 1 song, .2%

Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
Annie
Member
Member # 295

 - posted      Profile for Annie   Email Annie         Edit/Delete Post 
Oh, the reason it's a bonehead math exercise is because I did it all with pencil and paper. I think it's pretty good for me.
Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
TheTick
Member
Member # 2883

 - posted      Profile for TheTick   Email TheTick         Edit/Delete Post 
Hmm, not very well. Only Sting singing a few Spanish and French tunes, and some French in some Buffett tunes would save me from being 100% English.
Posts: 5422 | Registered: Dec 2001  |  IP: Logged | Report this post to a Moderator
   

   Close Topic   Feature Topic   Move Topic   Delete Topic next oldest topic   next newest topic
 - Printer-friendly view of this topic
Hop To:


Contact Us | Hatrack River Home Page

Copyright © 2008 Hatrack River Enterprises Inc. All rights reserved.
Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.


Powered by Infopop Corporation
UBB.classic™ 6.7.2