On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:35:29 -0400 Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
writes:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 15:44:28 -0400, Roger Mills <romilly@...>
> wrote:
> > RM-- Is that from the libretto to the opera?
> Yep.
> > Probably a good translation there. My attempt---
> > Don A.: Here's (Here comes, Behold) the doctor, lovely ladies.
> > F & G: (It's) Despina in disguise (in a mask), what sad skin.
> > (That last phrase is literal and perhaps has some idiomatic
> meaning,
> > like 'What an ugly mug' ???)
> My copy of the libretto w/ translation is in storage, but I'm pretty
> sure
> the last bit is something like, "what a joke!" Right after this,
> Despina
> lists a number of languages she claims to speak (unfortunately, I
> don't think any were conlangs).
> Jeff
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Thanks both of you!
-Stephen (Steg)
"do it under some foliage"
(the answer to all of life's problems and complications)
~ the huck finn of the lower east side