These days, there seems to be an on-going slump on this platform. Don't know whether it's the markets, the cold winter or something else, but people seem to be around here less and less. Not judging or anything, I'm including myself in all that. No idea what it is...

Anyway, for a few days now, I've been thinking about beautiful languages (perks of the trade, I suppose), I've been listening to a lot of music, in various languages and recently stumbled upon this gem >

https://youtu.be/ZZjnfWx0cvw?list=RDZZjnfWx0cvw
<center>[Maneskin - Torna a casa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZjnfWx0cvw&list=RDZZjnfWx0cvw&start_radio=1)<sub></sub></center>

As you can see, the name of the song is 'Torna a casa' (Return Home in Italian) and it strikes me what a beautiful phrase this is. It's the equivalent of come back or come back home and yet those don't sound nearly as lovely to me. There's something about that 'casa', which is the same word we use for home in Romanian. 
There's this bit that I just love, where the singer shouts
>Prima di te ero solo un pazzo, ora lascia che ti racconti
Avevo una giacca sgualcita e portavo tagli sui polsi

which basically translates to this 
>Before you I was just a lunatic, let me tell you now
I wore a creased jacket and cuts on my wrists

But it's not the same, there are nuances of language that you can only understand from the Italian version. It is technically the same, but it's not as...musical, as enticing. You can barely understand their beauty having learned the language as a foreigner (like in my case). 

There are so many wonderful languages in this world, it seems a crime that we, as poor foreigners, fight so hard to speak English and sound cool. I love English, don't get me wrong, but lately, it just leaves me cold. There is great beauty in English, but it's become so common and so pathetically universal that it seems to have lost appeal.

It's a pity really.

You can translate things in English, but so much beauty is lost. Wouldn't you rather try and learn the language? It would make you see so much more beauty...

Why are we letting our cultures become erased so easily? Why do we all strive to use the same word for crazy? It's not the same word and in each language, it carries its own past and meaning. How blind can we be? We're trying so hard to blend in, we forget what a pleasure it is to stand out. 

Back to my music. A presto, sconosciuti :) 

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