Re: USAGE: Circumfixes (Attempt of translation)

Ugh ! I'm more or less able to read a San-Antonio
"dans le texte", but I'm not used yet to read an
English translation of a San-Antonio ! I have to learn
everything from the beginning again ;-)

--- Remi Villatel <maxilys@...> wrote:
>
> > - did you really want to write "bulgarians", or
> rather
> > "burglars" ? Is perhaps "bulgarian" some slang
> word
> > for "burglar" ?
>
> It's a "jeu de mots"!
>
> I launch Charlie on the sniff-path; may him crouch
> like a frog in his stinky
> caverns to pick up a track about the safe
> bulgarians.
>
> sniff-path <-> war-path
>
> caverns <-> taverns
>
> pick up a track <-> pick up a trash
>
> bulgarians <-> burglars
>
> The same way I used "mouses" instead of "mouthes".
> (I'm very proud of this
> one.)  ;-)

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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