Re: "Roumant", or maybe Narbonósc.Part VII

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Dan Jones <feuchard@...>:
>
> > >
> > > in Narbonósc the reflexive verb nônâre-se /no'nars@/: to be called
> > would
> > be used
> >
> > Yep, as in Arveuneic, apeglarse, from apegler (note, when pronouns are
> > suffixed to the infinitive of -er verbs, which were originally -are
> > verbs,
> > the thematic vowel reverts to a). Also in Carashan (my "peudo-Romance"
> > lang), eumerse.
> >
>
> Where does your verb apeglarse come from? I suppose it's cognate from
French
> "s'appeler" and I'm wondering where this one comes from too :) .
L. appellare "to call, summon" (well done Luca - at least I think it was
Luca), which developed along a similar line to English and French to come to
mean "to be named".

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> >
> > > He he... While I'm writing this post I'm listening to Les Misérables
> > (thanks to
> > > Napster I found lots of MP3's of it :) ).
> >
> > French or English version (the French version is nicer in some songs,
> > IMNSHO)? La misère is one of my faves, and J'avais rêvé d'une autre vie.
> >
>
> English. French songs of les Misérables are remarkably difficult to find.
As for
> the fact that the French version would be nicer, I can believe it. After
all,
> the English version is a translation (too bad that the French version
never was
> a big success in France. Now that with Notre Dame de Paris France has
become
> more eager to accept musicals, I think people should try to put it again
on
> stage, as well as Cats which from what I know has never crossed the
frontiers
> of France) from the French one.
Actually the English version isn't a translation, it's an adaptation. They
took the same music and wrote completely new lyrics to fit it, that's why it
worked so well. The Anglophone version of Notre-Dame de Paris WAS a
translation, almost word-for-word, and at times it sounds awful (like "The
Court of the Miracles"). That's why it wasn't as successful here. Still, I
love Notre-Dame de Paris (Bohemienne and Le Temps de Cathedrales are my
favourites).

As to the French version of Les Mis, I found mine in a FNAC store in Nantes.
Well, I asked for it and kicked up enough of a fuss until they got it for
me. Apparently they thought I was an insane farmer from Finisterre :o).

Cats is an English show originally, by Andrew Lloyd Webber (He of Jesus
Christ Superstar fame), still going strong on the West End.

Dan (who likes modern musicals)

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