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"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tokens single cover.jpg
Single by The Tokens
from the album The Lion Sleeps Tonight
A-side "Tina"
Released November 1961
Genre
Rhythm and blues doo-wop
Length 2:41
Label RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)
Solomon Linda Hugo Peretti Luigi Creatore George David Weiss Albert Stanton
Producer(s) Hugo & Luigi
Audio sample
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"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song originally written and recorded by Solomon Linda[1] under the title "Mbube" for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939. Linda's original was written in Zulu, while the English version's lyrics were written by George David Weiss. The song was adapted and covered internationally by many pop and folk revival artists in the 1950s and 1960s,
Yes - being Australian I thought that too. But people in other countries may not know that we have banana characters on childrens' TV. Although I think they are exported to some countries!
We had bananas in pajamas in the Netherlands. Never knew they came all the way from Australia!
i grew up in Russia and we had them too. crazy stuff. teletubbies appeared to be a pathetic excuse for them
I thought I was missing something but it's just duolingo being duolingo!
Some Indonesian phrases are funny when directly translated into English though 'Badanku kurang enak' could be 'my body is minus delicious'! (I'm not feeling well).
If recall on an AMA on reddit the creator said they liked to through stuff like this in because it gives people a little laugh and helps people stay engaged, but also remember it because it is so different it is a little harder to forget.
I sense collusion with the Dutch course (colonial ruler of Indonesia) where we learn "ik ben een banaan"!
Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway...
I asked a native speaker if this was a phrase something like "raining cats and dogs" is in America and she said as far as she knows it isn't a real sentence.
Hey sweetheart. Be quiet, it has been really hard today but I just put the banana to sleep so dont wake it up please
you have lots of vocabulary. surely you can do better than, 'the banana sleeps'! On the other hand it's great you are doing Indonesian in Duolingo. Much appreciated.
Maybe the one speaking finds the sleeper an absolute twit, calling him a banana...
Bananas don't sleep in English, and I have asked an Indonesian friend who has told me this sentence is also meaningless in Bahasa.
A cryptic hommage to Chomsky perhaps?
That should be an allowable translation. Plurality depends on context in Bahasa Indonesia. So if I was standing next to a whole hand of snoring bananas (as I so often do!) that is exactly what I would mean by this delightful sentence.
I'm starting to suspect that Duolingo uses a computer to generate phrases rather than people which is why is why some of them make no sense.
It is quite likely, considering how they started out. (They were taking texts in different languages from different companies and government agencies and giving its fragments to people as "exercises", then people were translating it for them "for free", correcting each other, and when the translation was correct enough, they were selling it to these companies. People were also "helping" them fill up their databases with words and their translations, which could then be sold as dictionary databases.)
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'that banana sleeps' makes about as much sense as 'from toilet to toilet' (in the section on 'places')....sounds like some twisted pub crawl!
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Does "banana" mean something else here that I'm thinking about in my mind?? :'|) okay just for fun guys :-)
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Apakah tdk ada kalimat yang lain? Masa ada pisang tidur ? Aneh kalimat ini.. Maaf kalimat ini tdk bermutu
Please, Duolingo, STOP using nonsensical phrases and sentences. It is educationally unsound.
