Re: Ong Rokbeigalmki (A Rokbeigalmki Chant)

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Steg Belsky wrote:

> Eh?  {olei} is pronounced /olej/.
> Isn't "allez" /ale/ ?  (and what is it, anyway?)
>
Depending on how accurate the speaker is.  The same day as the
Rokbeigalmki Chant came through I watched an interview with the singer
Ricky Martin which mentioned a song he did for the soccer world cup which
included a line in the chorus that sounded to me like /olej olej olej/.
Since this song included lines sung in English, French and Spanish, I
suspect is was meant to be {allez, allez, allez} "Go! Go! Go!" rather than
Spanish {ole ole ole}.  Pronunciation, to the untrained ear, becomes
blurred...

Also I know Anglo-Norman re-enactors who use the battle-cry {Allons-ci,
allons-ci, allon-ci} "Here we go!  Here we go!  Here we go!"  So using
aller in chants does not sound unusual to me and it leads me to suspect
that Rokbeigalmki {olej} may be an (innocent) parallel development.

- andrew.
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