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Bill, I think the problem lies in the near complete absence of words in which the A is pronounced like in wAll - let alone ones that finish in LL.
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The O in vol sounds like the O in Ordinary rather than the A in wAll.
It's tricky, eh? I find it hard enough to find rhymes in one language, I think it is probably even harder finding words that rhyme using a different language.
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Dear belMarduk: The "a" in wall sounds to me like small, tall, fall, ball.
Vol=theft I thought sounded a bit like and ethnic speaker saying "wall".
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Oof, it is realllly a stretch Bill. Halle sounds much more like wall than vol. Well actually vol does not sound like hall at all in French. Are you pronouncing vol like in vollyball? That would explain it.
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I know "vol" sounds like "Pole". I was thinking that "vol" to a Yiddish speaker might sound a bit like "wall".
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But surely - unless my schoolboy French has totally dissappeared - the "W" sound comes from the pronunciation of "aux" when it comes before a vowel (or dropped [h]aitch), does it not?
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Could "Pas d'elle yeux Rhone que nous," be the motto of a French individualist?
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Will one of you Frenchie-Speaks help me with a question I’ve held for thirty years, namely- How is possible, as it is reputed, that Edgar Poe’s poems The Raven and The Bells, became even better poems through the translation into French? This, to me, is impossible, regardless of the ability and liberties taken by the translator.
Anyone read the French versions?
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Dear RC: I was taught that "aux" before a vowel was pronounced like "ose" in "nose". I was also taught to padde my own que nous.
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