Friend from Barquinha
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- None yet; perhaps the Portugese (2021?)
A bit of fun, in a not-so-fun time--
I guess by now we've all heard that 2 rounds of "Happy Birthday" (or its equivalent--same tune--in other languages) sung to oneself is 20 seconds of the currrently recommended antiviral handwashing.
Well, a local British Columbia newspaper notes that a clever programmer has developed an app that lets you generate a hand-washing poster to the first 20 seconds of any song you like.
Here's the tool: https://washyourlyrics.com/
So--pick a song; any song--though I suspect the livelier ones work better. And for many non-English languages, you need to include diacritical marks, which basically are accents. (Check the box on the app.)
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Here's my favourite Portuguese "new fado" singer, Carminho, with a wonderful Youtube video, "Saia Rodada":
And here's the poster generated from that: (It turns out that one verse is almost exactly 20 seconds!)
How do you like to wash your hands?
I guess by now we've all heard that 2 rounds of "Happy Birthday" (or its equivalent--same tune--in other languages) sung to oneself is 20 seconds of the currrently recommended antiviral handwashing.
Well, a local British Columbia newspaper notes that a clever programmer has developed an app that lets you generate a hand-washing poster to the first 20 seconds of any song you like.
Here's the tool: https://washyourlyrics.com/
So--pick a song; any song--though I suspect the livelier ones work better. And for many non-English languages, you need to include diacritical marks, which basically are accents. (Check the box on the app.)
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Here's my favourite Portuguese "new fado" singer, Carminho, with a wonderful Youtube video, "Saia Rodada":
And here's the poster generated from that: (It turns out that one verse is almost exactly 20 seconds!)
How do you like to wash your hands?
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