Planning a side event at the 25th Sinn und Bedeutung conference in September 2020
on the occasion of the retirement of Ede Zimmermann, Daniel Gutzmann and Viola Schmitt, in conspiracy with the London SuB25 team, asked associates and friends of his to record playback versions of Donovan's 1967 hit Mellow Yellow, from which they would compile one honorary video. Here is my contribution. The lyrics are part English, part German.
- Some are mad about morphemes
Some are wild about words
Some are fanatics of phonemes
I think they are all nerds:
:/: I'm mad about the meanings :/: - Wolfgang schwärmte für Syntax
Caroline für Phonologie
Pirmin schwärmte für Logik
Ede war anders als sie:
:/: Er schwärmte für Semantik :/: - Syntactical technicals
Give kicks on the river of Styx
For my intellectual tickles
I use a different fix:
:/: Addicted to semantics :/: