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The Smiths in sonnets

posted by davidt on Wednesday February 15 2006, @09:00AM

Thagne writes:

A french poet, fan of MORRISSEY, adapts texts of "The Queen Is Dead" and "Frankly, M SHANKLY" in sonnets!
See it at http://chansonnier.over-blog.com/.

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"I still cannot speak French.I am very lazy" (Score:1)

I'm sure it's jolly good though!!!

almareallymatters -- Wednesday February 15 2006, @10:30AM (#198228)
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heavy words are so lightly thrown

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Re:"I still cannot speak French.I am very lazy" by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday February 15 2006, @02:09PM

Keats et Yates sont de ton bord, mais tu perds (Score:0)

I do read french, so unfortunately i could understand these lines: this amount of words is just an attempt of songs translation within rimes and "sonnet" form. No interest at all. Once again Google randomly crowns an idiot and wasted our time.
YANN

Anonymous -- Wednesday February 15 2006, @11:55PM (#198337)

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WILDE is by my side. (Score:0)

Now, there is "I Know It's Over"!
Realy nice to who's understanding french...

Anonymous -- Thursday February 16 2006, @07:57AM (#198390)

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Problems with translation (Score:1)

I actually prefer the pictures to the writings though. If you know French, you would have the impression this poet is writing like a 5 year-old Rimbaud. I think Morrissey's lyrics call for serious work of adaptation to avoid the childlish effect they produced in these translations in French. You can't just merely translate them.

Mrs. Woolf -- Thursday February 16 2006, @08:00AM (#198391)
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Re:Problems with translation by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday February 16 2006, @08:20AM
- Re:Problems with translation by devoted101 (Score:1) Thursday February 16 2006, @08:57AM

google translation (Score:0)

Don't speak French so I let google translate for me http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Fchansonnier.over-blog.com%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&h l=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Anonymous -- Thursday February 16 2006, @04:20PM (#198491)

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