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Thread #3370   Message #17213
Posted By: Jerry Friedman
06-Dec-97 - 03:44 PM
Thread Name: it's not French, and it's not a song
Subject: RE: it's not French, and it's not a song
Un p'tit d'un p'tit sétone aux halles, etc. [not "s'étonne"?]
Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall, etc. [lots of silent final letters in French].

Si vili, si ergo Fortibuces in ero No ses Mari Dei be trux Vatis inum? Chaos en dux.

See, Willy, see 'er go
Forty buses in a row
No says Mary
They be trucks
What is in 'em?
Cows and ducks

[V was apparently pronounced like W in classical Latin.]

YY U R, etc. = Too wise [Two y's] you are, etc.

AB, CDEagles? S, ICDEagles. L, MNOEagles! OSARDEagles!
Abie, see the eagles? Yes, I see the eagles. Hell, them ain't no eagles! Oh yes they are the eagles! [The version I learned started AB, CDB?]

BR I 4Q RU/18 (QT)? = Before I f*** you, are you over 18 (cutie)?

I have trouble with some of Bruce's antiques. URIC = You are I see, but what the heck are SCOT and AGRY?