How comes the word "eletronica" is so common for hour scene?
i wondered why, since its simple spanish meaning nothing more than "electronic", why people use it to define whole "edm" genre???
anyone knows more specific?
Mar-01-2004 15:58
Poncho
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Don't ask questions.
Mar-01-2004 16:20
BloodfIower
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sry no k plz go thnx
Mar-01-2004 16:23
Poncho
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you are forgiven
Mar-01-2004 16:23
Mr. Pink
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WHy? No idea...
but why the hell do the people above me make so much noise when they're fukin?
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Mar-01-2004 16:38
Renegade
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It's not the Spanish word, it's a singular collective noun. The "-a" or "-ia" suffix are often used to conjugate singular nouns into singular collective nouns.
Australis = Australia
Paraphernalis = Paraphernalia
Animal = Animalia
By the same token:
Electronic = Electronica
If you have several different "variants" of an electronic music, then these variants can be referred to, collectively, as "electronica" in the same way that several different variants of "animals" can be referred to collectively as "animalia".
most of the ppl i know use the term- i think it's a much better umbrella term.
EDM- electronic dance music, b/c there is a lot of experimental electronic stuff you won't hear ina club, and you can't dance to that is sort of in it's own genre.
Mar-01-2004 17:12
BloodfIower
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Ahhh so if i got u right with my crappy english renegade
instead of one eletronic, u can call different "electronics" also eletronica, n its just as right?
Mar-01-2004 17:14
Renegade
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Originally posted by Bloodflower
Ahhh so if i got u right with my crappy english renegade
instead of one eletronic, u can call different "electronics" also eletronica, n its just as right?
Electronic = adjective ("This is an electronic thing.")
Electronics = Plural Noun ("These things use/are electronics.")
Electronica = Singular Collective Noun ("These electronic things that use electronics are known collectively as "electronica".")
"Electronica" would technically refer to the all things that are electronic or all electronics. Why it generally only refers to types of electronic music is something I don't know.... so I hope you're as confused as I am?
But that only works if you have different "types" of humans - i.e. different species - not just lots of humans of the same specie (in which case you'd use the plural noun).