Thar He Blows!

[BeBMan]

... the answer in the wind when the times they are a changing!

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37643621

[Lorizael]

Are Swedes unfamiliar with singing?

[Bereta_Eder]

I used to care but things have changed

norwegians

[BeBMan]

Are Swedes unfamiliar with singing?

Dunno, but maybe there's a reason why they gave it "for Literature"....

edit: I never understood why it's "they are a changing"

edit2: maybe it's a botched DS9 ref and he meant "a changeling"

tho why would that be the times

[Elok]

When was the last time the Nobel Prize in Literature went to somebody more than 5% of the Anglophone world had heard of?

Possibly 1995 or 1993, it seems. I don't know how well Seamus Heaney is known, but probably a majority of people know whoTF Toni Morrison is.

[Lorizael]

Dunno, but maybe there's a reason why they gave it "for Literature"....

edit: I never understood why it's "they are a changing"

edit2: maybe it's a botched DS9 ref and he meant "a changeling"

tho why would that be the times

It's a structure found in some rural American dialects and is left over from a time when English was fussier about verb tenses.

[The Mad Monk]

Dunno, but maybe there's a reason why they gave it "for Literature"....

edit: I never understood why it's "they are a changing"

edit2: maybe it's a botched DS9 ref and he meant "a changeling"

tho why would that be the times

Understandable. It's an English language...thingy. Right up there with ending words not normally ending in "o", with an "o", when they're used in a folk song.

"...and Bingo was his name-o"

[BeBMan]

Still blowing his answer in the wind:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37689160

Ungrateful bastard