Re: OT: My first published hypertext up on BathHouse

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From: "Remi Villatel" <maxilys@...>

> Sally Caves wrote:
>
>> http://www.emich.edu/studentorgs/bhouse/SarahLHigley.htm
>
> Ton français est presque parfait.  ;-)  Your french is almost perfect.
Bien de remerciements, Remi!  (oui, je t'ai compris)... of course the "Tous
les samedis elle est en fait de fornicacion avec un autre" is pronounced
with what I thought might be a late fourteenth- early fifteenth-century
pronunciation.  But around this time they were beginning to phase out final
t and s, I think, and nasalizing the n; but I wanted it to sound archaic.  I
think it sounds a little too lax in its vowels.

> Les merveilleuse*s* aventures
> Qui a*d*viennent aux cr*é*atures, <- comma (actually a period)
> *Les* savoir est excellente chose.
>
> Nice touch of Old French!
Late Middle to Early Modern... I took my spelling and pronunciation from the
La Coudrette MS, 29-31 (1499?)  I did leave out the "s" but there were no
diacritical marks in the original.  I'd have to go back to the library to
check--this was a year ago.  So moving forward and going back did not
stimulate the soundbyte to start?  Is this a problem for other people?  How
disappointing. This was my favorite musical composition which really gives
the piece its tone.

The very last page plays it again, so if you go there you'll hear, it
perhaps.   But I'm the most insecure about its pronunciation, which is
inconsistent; also I didn't want it to sound modern.  It was twenty takes
for this, with me on the electronic piano and singing into my husband's
Tascam, and a deadline looming, and I was getting really fatigued and
freaked out.  Consider it a "fairy French"; one for which there is no real
original. :)  Oh, well, what's up is up--no changing it now. :(

>> PS-- this may be a problem of my own computer, but the second page,
>> "Melusine writing her tale in her bath" is supposed to have a soundbyte
>> that starts when you land on it.  If it doesn't start, press forward and
>> then go back. I've written the editors.
>
> Well, on my computer, the page keeps on loading but no sound ever comes
> out.
> I tried to download the MP3 file directly but nothing happens. Mozilla
> keeps
> on loading without actually loading anything. The same happens for every
> MP3. I guess the files are stuck in the pipe.  ;-)
Bummer.  I've let the Bathhouse editors know, but I'm not confident they'll
be able to fix it.  Eventually, I'll put it on my own domain site, and I'll
correct the mistakes.

Thank you for your response, Remi!

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