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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:54 pm
by margaret
Pussycat pussycat, where have you been?
I've been to London to look at the queen
pussycat pussycat
what d'you do there?
I frightened a little mouse
on the chair
Is this almost right Pete?
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:00 pm
by Pete
Et qui rit des cures d'Oc
De Meuse raines, houp de cloques.
De quelles loques ce turque coin,
Et ne d'anes ni rennes
Ecuries des cures d'Oc
That's all for now, but I do have many more from the Mots D'heures: Gousses, Rames
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:02 pm
by Pete
Margaret!!!
Thankyou thankyou thankyou
I am not alone
Now can the others be worked out???
Pete
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:04 pm
by Heretic
Pete, please spare us that.
French is bad enough anyway.
Pseudo French is a horror too far.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:12 pm
by margaret
Hickory dickory dock
the mouse ran up the clock
etc.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:41 pm
by Jo
Pete - I suspected what your rhymes were about - but I still couldn't make sense of them - perhaps because my French pronunciation leaves a lot to be desired........
We played around in similar vein when Latin classes became too boring:
Ceasar et caecus forte
Brutus et erat
Caesar sic in transit
Brutus sic in at.
Jo
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:44 pm
by Byron
I'm still struggling with the cat that crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out again.
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:01 am
by Byron
pas d'elle y on ca nous. Sailor!
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:06 am
by Byron
Rudyard Kipling wrote that "There's some that think that they will; there's some that think that they might, but the things you learn from the yellow and black will help you a lot with the white." He was a hundred years ahead of his time. He may have been the bloke who said that the reason why the Sun never set on the British Empire was because G-d didn't trust the English in the dark.