spoonerisms de la façon française (sp?)

[trochee]

contrèpetrie (also possibly: contrèpeterie, since google has many more hits for "contrepeterie", also possibly without accent grave): "spoonerism", at least according to my recent dictionary purchase.

This word is thanks to imtboo, who explained that the pair toutes mes felicitations and toutes mes ficelles de caleçon are a contrèpetrie.

Interestingly, Babelfish attempts to translate contrèpeterie as contrepetery (but not contrèpetrie, which it leaves as is), but Google doesn't think "contrepetery" exists, and I am inclined to agree. This suggests that there is some hand-coded morphology rule in the Fr->En SYSTRAN engine that maps -erie to -ery regardless of whether the word is lexically available.

In other (related) news, I have worked out how to use the "Compose" key under SCIM and KDE to get accented characters.

Comments

[several-bees.livejournal.com]

This suggests that there is some hand-coded morphology rule in the Fr->En SYSTRAN engine that maps -erie to -ery regardless of whether the word is lexically available.

Ha, excellent. Like the reverse of the "er, well, I can't remember the French word for 'mechanic', so I'll try 'mechanique'" method of passing tests in high school.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

heh. knowledge-based MT is exactly that kind of hacking.

Statistical MT is much harder but may be more scalable in the long run. On the other hand, the state-of-the-art is way behind the hand-coded MT.

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

Is it SCIM, or is it GTK? I think it's a GTK thing. Mine works great in GTK stuff, but proceeds to flip its shit in emacs (i have to change emacs input modes).

(Data gathered from a silly josh-trying-to-learn-latin-and-french experience)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

seems like it works well under SCIM and GTK; emacs is and probably always will be its own beast.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Contrepétrie .
That is the right accentuation. I am positive.
It's when you switch sounds around in a sentence and it means something else.
Like :
Glisser dans la Piscine.
The contrepétrie in this case is :
Pisser dans la gliscine.

So ficelles de caleçon is indeed a pun and not a contrepétrie. But still we all learned something so hey.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Oh and look.
http://www.duhamel.bz/contrepeterie/receuil%20de%20contrepeterieM.htm

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

So now... i don't know where the accent goes. The french sites have it both ways too everywhere !!!!