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Thread #48286 Message #731311
Posted By: Mark Cohen
17-Jun-02 - 05:18 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Latin form of Old MacDonald's Farm
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Latin form of Old MacDonald's Farm
Jeanie, it sounds like the book you mentioned is a me-too version of Mots d'Heures -- Gousses, Rames (sorry, can't do accents), which was published in 1967 by Luis D'Antin Van Rooten. The German version sounds equally brilliant. Does it also include academic-sounding footnotes "explaining" the often bizarrely-phrased "poems"? For example:
Un petit d'un petit S'etonne aux Halles Un petit d'un petit Ah! degres te fallent...
The footnote to the first line says: "The inevitable result of a child marriage."
And Micca's ditty reminds me of this one that I learned from my Latin teacher: