Les Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames (No Spam)

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 9:20 am

@ Ysh, I remember something similar, possibly the same thing from my childhood

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 9:36 am

@T' LOL!

Well I am thinking that the "age" thing can be a little misleading...or could it be that I am a parent now?

Funny how these things return....

Osiris · Post by **Osiris** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 9:53 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
Either that or Babelfish is absolutely useless Not that I have any frame of reference I just assume its powers of a deduction are a little lacking, kind of like Sherlock holmes without the pipe, tweed or magnifying glass.

Perhaps a "mentally challenged" Sherlock Holmes?

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 9:57 am

Lit-elle messe, moffette,
Satan ne te fete,
Et digne somme couers et nouez.
A longue qu'aime est-ce pailles d'Eure.
Et ne Satan bise ailleurs
Et ne fredonne messe. Moffette, ah, ouias!

Osiris · Post by **Osiris** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 10:20 am

@Frogus - This one is a bit too obvious, methinks...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 10:22 am

Originally posted by Osiris

@Frogus - This one is a bit too obvious, methinks...

LOL!

You have it worked out now?

Osiris · Post by **Osiris** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 10:25 am

A "mentally challenged" Osiris, perhaps.....

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 10:31 am

These are all copied out of a book, but I am thinking of making one of my own...not a nursery rhyme though - Perhaps Paint It Black...or Flash even?

Who knows...

Mysteria · Post by **Mysteria** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 8:56 am

Hm ... what's this?

I don't get it at all. Maybe the fact that those poems don't make much sense to me has got something to do with the fact that I can read French? Or is just a further proof to the fact that I'm no poet? Would somebody care to enlighten me?

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 9:08 am

Your guess is as good as mine, Mysty...

Originally posted by Mysteria
Hm ... what's this? I don't get it at all. Maybe the fact that those poems don't make much sense to me has got something to do with the fact that I can read French? Or is just a further proof to the fact that I'm no poet? Would somebody care to enlighten me?

...moreso for me coz I dont speak French.

Maybe it's best appreciated when such words are spoken by the British when they speak French.

*ducks for cover*

Nippy · Post by **Nippy** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 9:58 am

Ahem! Mod or not, I am British, take it back son!

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 2:30 pm

This is one that I cannot figure out...anyone with a good French accent, I would appreciate some help

D'Arras en halte, oh humaine, ou Lievin echoue!
Chiale semaine...y Gilles de Rennes chez Diderot...
ouate tout doux
Chifrer de sombre eau...Ouie d'Aoudh...Denys
brette
Si huppe, bemol sans delit...Enceinte aime tout bete.

I am guessing that 'Gilles de Rennes' is 'children' and that 'Diderot ouate tout doux' is 'didn't know what to do' and 'tout bete' is 'to bed', but I cannot figure out the rest...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 2:35 pm

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children she didn't know what to do
So she gave them some broth, without any bread
Then she whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed

It is not a good French accent that is needed, it is a sense of rhythm and a decent knowledge of nursery rhymes

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 8:02 pm

Yikes!!!

Originally posted by Nippy
Ahem! Mod or not, I am British, take it back son!

...my apologies, Lord Marshall.

...here take it.

@Ysh: I agree. However, for people like me we don't even know how the words would be pronounced in French.

Nevertheless, interesting.

Chalk one for my personal FYI's...

Mysteria · Post by **Mysteria** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 3:19 am

Originally posted by Yshania
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children she didn't know what to do
So she gave them some broth, without any bread
Then she whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed

It is not a good French accent that is needed, it is a sense of rhythm and a decent knowledge of nursery rhymes

I'd even say it's a bad French accent that's needed, a good grasp on English and some excellent imagination ... It's actually easier if you don't know what the French words mean, I'd say.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:26 pm

@Mah LOL!

Originally posted by Mysteria

I'd even say it's a bad French accent that's needed, a good grasp on English and some excellent imagination ... It's actually easier if you don't know what the French words mean, I'd say.

I agree