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Post by terentiusfaber on Jul 11, 2023 21:18:08 GMT
Even when I go for my daily walk this is blasting away in my head on repeat. Who needs an iPod?
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Post by terentiusfaber on Jul 11, 2023 21:23:00 GMT
When I tried to insert this as a link, the link simply opened another window with the same post. I ended up just posting the bare URL and the above happened. To save consuming the forum's bandwhatsitwherewithal maybe a mod could please fix it, amabo te?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 12, 2023 9:33:24 GMT
Don't worry, you've done the right thing. It looks like it's there, but it's really somewhere else, so it doesn't count.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 12, 2023 10:17:01 GMT
I once had this one stuck in my head for a couple of days:
I hate this song with all my heart, and always did, so that was most regrettable.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 12, 2023 10:43:50 GMT
I can't say I was familiar with that song, although the internet tells me that everyone in France knows it, and it's popular in the Netherlands as well.
I'm still too much in awe, or maybe shock, to frame a coherent response. There is such a thing as so bad it's good.
In which spirit:
A problem shared is a problem multiplied.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 12, 2023 16:42:56 GMT
I can't say I was familiar with that song, although the internet tells me that everyone in France knows it, and it's popular in the Netherlands as well. I'm still too much in awe, or maybe shock, to frame a coherent response. There is such a thing as so bad it's good. In which spirit: A problem shared is a problem multiplied. Unfortunately for me, Sardou's music lies in the valley just after the "so bad it's good" hilltop. Still, I want to congratulate for your valiant effort; that song is indeed Bad. |
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 12, 2023 20:28:40 GMT
This has been playing in my head on and off since yesterday, some of you will know why.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 12, 2023 20:43:57 GMT
This has been playing in my head on and off since yesterday, some of you will know why. I have to admit I only knew the first line. I mean, le père Lustucru ringed a bell, but I couldn't have recalled him. |
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Post by kizolk on Jul 12, 2023 20:46:48 GMT
Speaking of nursery rhymes, it occurred to me the other day that while most French varieties have lost word-final E's in the spoken language, there's at least one notable case where everyone pronounces them without really thinking too much about it: Frère Jacques
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 12, 2023 20:51:08 GMT
This has been playing in my head on and off since yesterday, some of you will know why. I have to admit I only knew the first line. I mean, le père Lustucru ringed a bell, but I couldn't have recalled him. Same here—until I looked it up yesterday. |
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 12, 2023 20:55:41 GMT
Speaking of nursery rhymes, it occurred to me the other day that while most French varieties have lost word-final E's in the spoken language, there's at least one notable case where everyone pronounces them without really thinking too much about it: Frère Jacques Au clair de la lun eMon ami Piérot Prêt e-moi ta plum ePour écrire un mot Ma chandelle est mort eJe n'ai plus de feu Ouvre-moi ta port ePour l'amour de Dieu |
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Post by kizolk on Jul 12, 2023 21:07:30 GMT
It makes sense that nursery rhymes should be a special kind of time machine. Or any kind of metered writing in general, but nursery rhymes have the advantage of both being widely know, and old.
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Post by terentiusfaber on Jul 12, 2023 23:00:55 GMT
I hate this song with all my heart, and always did, so that was most regrettable. Vous avez raison, monsieur. C'est merde.  |
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Post by kizolk on Jul 13, 2023 6:57:10 GMT
Michel is impressively consistent in terms of the quality of his songs, too. He's one of the very few immensely popular French singers whose success I never quite understood.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 13, 2023 7:01:27 GMT
By the way, he first wanted this song to be about Scotland, but since neither he nor his author knew anything about that country, they chose another one they knew nothing about instead.
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