Special HBO Adventure Time Embassy Pro and EB-0

[Chris P.]

Sorry, this is in Dutch, from my website, but there's hardly any info, so check the pics:

https://www.debassist.nl/nieuws/artikel/3-24963/gibson-adventure-time

[Highlander]

Ran it through a translation engine... 

Gibson has teamed up with Adventure Time: Distant Lands for the main character Marceline. The result consists of a guitar, but also two basses. We don't know the series, but the instruments are fun!
Epiphone once had the Emily The Strange SG and the Squier hello Kitty guitar and Badtz Maru bass have now become collector's items. Gibson now comes with three special models in collaboration with Adventure Time: Distant Lands (Obsidian) from HBO Max. The models - an Explorer guitar and an Embassy Pro and EB-0 bass have an appearance based on the show's main character: Marceline, The Vampire Queen.
Fans: Forgive us if we say something wrong, because we know more about bass than TV series.
Anyway: we think the result is very cool and as a total stranger to the series, we would play on it!

[Chris P.]

Thanks! I was too lazy to translate my own text. 

[4stringer77]

Interesting. Are the kids supposed to be into fuzz bass again these days?

[westen44]

I found some more info.  Since it mentions the song is performed by a Chilean artist, that explains why she started singing in Spanish while doing that song.  So far this topic has covered Dutch, English and Spanish. 

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/gibson-teams-up-with-adventure-time-distant-lands-for-a-series-of-marceline-the-vampire-queen-themed-guitars

[Chris P.]

Dutch just because I run the bass mag and I like Gibson 

[westen44]

Dutch just because I run the bass mag and I like Gibson 

I like both Dutch and Gibson.  So that's fine with me.  I will try to play Gibsons the best I can, but becoming fluent in Dutch is unlikely to happen.  This Australian who is learning Dutch explains what it's like for an English speaker.  She likes Dutch, but explains here some of the frustrating aspects of trying to learn it. 

[BTL]

Those are really fun!

[Chris P.]

I very liked that video. For us Dutchies the Engloish language has the same strange things, like pronunciation of certain almost the same looking words:

Clear
Cleans

Heather
Heater

Yeah
Yeast

Early
Easy

Make up your mind! 

And then: Catch and caught. Watch and watched. Why didn't I waught a movie?

[westen44]

I very liked that video. For us Dutchies the Engloish language has the same strange things, like pronunciation of certain almost the same looking words:

Clear
Cleans

Heather
Heater

Yeah
Yeast

Early
Easy

Make up your mind! 

And then: Catch and caught. Watch and watched. Why didn't I waught a movie?

The main difference is that in the Netherlands there is high quality foreign language instruction.  I know this because I have seen it myself many times with many different people.  The U.S. has never placed much serious emphasis on people learning foreign languages.  The U.S. has some other strong points, however, like making Gibsons.  Even that is debatable with some people, but I've always liked them. 

[slinkp]

English is such a chaotic mash of other languages it's a wonder anyone can read or speak it at all, and no surprise that spelling is difficult even for native speakers.
Here's one of my favorite sets of words:

Cough
Tough
Through
Bough
Dough

[Highlander]

Thanks! I was too lazy to translate my own text. 

(Dave... still think we could do with a face-palm or a double face-palm emoticon...)

Tapadh leat ... throwing Gaelic into the mix...

[Pilgrim]

(Dave... still think we could do with a face-palm or a double face-palm emoticon...)

Tapadh leat ... throwing Gaelic into the mix...

As someone with the surname Powell, I can only suggest that a bit of Welsh in the group would add diversity, although it might use up certain letters of the alphabet prematurely. 

[Highlander]

Rwy'n cytuno...

(means I agree, but in Welsh... just don't ask me to pronounce it...)

[Pilgrim]

Rwy'n cytuno...

(means I agree, but in Welsh... just don't ask me to pronounce it...)

As they say down South, "thass fahn, jess' fahn."

As Tom Lehrer quoth in It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier:  "He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well."