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Dark Carnival said:
Similar beginnings except I made the right choice right away.

Beirut 2001, a 16 year old DC witnesses a live discussion in an msn chatroom about which is better, a metal carnival or a dark carnival (I think. This part is a bit blurry). Around that time I found Dotmusic while looking for the UK charts and probably decided to join when I saw there was a Spice forum, under the name spice karnival :eyes: inspired by the msn chatroom discussion.

After being deservedly bullied by the guys from Dotlite, it became quickly apparent to me that the Spice forum was full of losers while all the cool kids hung out at Dotlite so I decided to move over there while rebranding myself to Dark Carnival to fit in with a cooler audience :)

The name means obviously nothing to me, but having been called that for over 18 years now, it has kind of stuck with me.
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I’ll be honest, I think yours is my favourite username. I had though it was an Insane Clown Posse reference at first but the more I’ve got to know you I realised that was unlikely :D
 
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Dark Carnival said:
Best Iraqi accents omg :love:
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Ours is very light though as I was born in Baghdad and both of my parents’ families lived there long before that.

It’s sad though that I’d struggle to speak Baghdadi accent now since we dropped it when we moved here, as almost all Christian Iraqis only speak northern dialects, and the two Muslim Iraqi friends I know I speak Swedish with.
 
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RaspberrySwirl said:
Ours is very light though as I was born in Baghdad and both of my parents’ families lived there long before that.

It’s sad though that I’d struggle to speak Baghdadi accent now since we dropped it when we moved here, as almost all Christian Iraqis only speak northern dialects, and the two Muslim Iraqi friends I know I speak Swedish with.
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Mine is very Baghdadi as well. I kind of lost it when we moved to Beirut when I was 10. I tried to keep using it with my dad but that's about it. And having lived in France for over ten years now, I find myself struggling to speak Lebanese without using a few French words (even more than we usually do).
 
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Dark Carnival said:
I find myself struggling to speak Lebanese without using a few French words (even more than we usually do).
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I loved the way the middle-class of Beirut mixed French and Arabic very seamlessly. I found though that outside Beirut French was often less useful than English.
 
Loufoque said:
I loved the way the middle-class of Beirut mixed French and Arabic very seamlessly. I found though that outside Beirut French was often less useful than English.
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It was even more like this in the good old past, especially in Lebanon and Egypt, before the wave of panarabism and ugly nationalism took over.
 
Loufoque said:
I loved the way the middle-class of Beirut mixed French and Arabic very seamlessly. I found though that outside Beirut French was often less useful than English.
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French was historically way more used than English until quite recently. I'd say English took over sometime in the second half of the 20th century.

When were you there?
 
First week of February. Everyone was like "WTF are you doing here?" We did a lot: Beirut on and off in between Byblos, Tripoli, Ehden, Bcharré, Baalbek... The country is pretty amazing.
 
Loufoque said:
First week of February. Everyone was like "WTF are you doing here?" We did a lot: Beirut on and off in between Byblos, Tripoli, Ehden, Bcharré, Baalbek... The country is pretty amazing.
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Tell him what you also said and what he really wants to hear; that it was nicer than Israel.
 
RaspberrySwirl said:
Tell him what you also said and what he really wants to hear; that it was nicer than Israel.
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I liked it a lot more than Israel. Israel is somehow exhausting, with all its security and all the tensions that simmer under the surface, even during peacetime. Lebanon is much more interesting, in terms of nature, culture, history... and I found the people are much friendlier and less arrogant, despite all other Arabs telling me that Lebanese are snobbish cunts.
 
Loufoque said:
I liked it a lot more than Israel. Israel is somehow exhausting, with all its security and all the tensions that simmer under the surface, even during peacetime. Lebanon is much more interesting, in terms of nature, culture, history... and I found the people are much friendlier and less arrogant, despite all other Arabs telling me that Lebanese are snobbish cunts.
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Oh there's definitely some snobbishness when you start a conversation with, ça va? But yeah, people are generally very friendly and love being nice to tourists. A concept completely unheard of in France.
 
Maybe I'm totally fucked up from living in Paris for too long, but I don't even find it that snobby outside of SOME QUEENS' milieus
 
When I first signed on with dotmusic, I had just got into The Flaming Lips. They had released a thingy called "Zaireeka" a four CD set in which the discs were to be played simultaneously, thus the album was in octophonic sound. For a while I referred to my home studio as Octophonic Sound Research which was a bit cheeky given that I was still using a 4-track cassette machine and an audio-out for a home PC.

I later discovered that an octophone is an obscure musical instrument, similar to a mandolin. This would have been more fitting as an explanation but it wouldn't be true.
 
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