A book I want

[trochee]

Mentioned on alphabet_soup:
mots d'heures: gousses, rames, by Luis d'Antin Van Rooten (I think).

This cracks me up, and I don't even speak French, though I can fake it.

Pis-terre, pis-terre
Pomme qui n'y terre
Ah! de ouilles fenil coup ne qu'y perd
Il peut terrine et pomme qu'y n'échelle
Iéna équipe soeur verrou elle.

I get a kick out of trying to read this out loud in as authentic a French accent as I can pull off.

Comments

[chachachana.livejournal.com]

you crack me up!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

just for you, then, a work of my own creation, mauling a language you speak well:

Day Cull Oar Ess
Day: cull oaress,
Day: cull oaress, say we stand lows, can posy lap ring a bear, ah!
Day: cull oaress,
Day: cull oaress, and lows pair-y Owesky Ben a laugh wear, ah!
Day: cull oaress,
Day-cull oaress, Ethel arc o'he risky Ben Oslo seer,
He, poor Ethel Lows-Krahn they's a more ess;
Dame Mouchaux: cull oar, Esme Goux, Stan and me.

Oh, I have too much time on my hands. What I won't do for an appreciative audience with a pretty face or two...

[la-chispa.livejournal.com]

Ewwwww.

I have a copy of mots d'heure: gousses, rames. I am such a dork.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

with that poetic abomination I wrote above, I don't think you have to be embarrassed around me.

Day-cull oaress

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

OK, I"m sitting in the clinic on lunch break laughing my head off!