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Well, I thought it was clever...
Un petit d'un petit
S'etonne aux Halles.
Un petit d'un petit,
Ah! Degres te fallent.
Indolent qui ne sort cesse,
Indolent qui ne se mene.
Qu'importe? Un petit d'un petit
Bague tout gai de Raguennes.
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doc c -- I recall reading this a long time ago. I believe it was part of a collection of nursery rhymes, all using French gibberish to approximate phonetic English. Very clever. Appealed to the same audience that made Fractured French a big hit. Do you happen to know the title, and if it's still available.?
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Do you happen to know the title, and if it's still available?
No idea and no idea. Sorry.
Edit: "Mot d'Heure Gousse, n'Heure Souris Rames" and no idea.
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Luis D'Antin Van Rooten, Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames (London: Angus and Robertson, 1967)
-- and it is indeed wonderful, if your french is good enough.
out of print, but a few used copies seem to be available through the on-line services
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Cute. I got the English reference when reading it aloud, but would anyone care to translate the French there? 'Spect it's nonsense, but would like to know the translation anyway.
Merci,
OrB~
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THANK GOD! I thought I was losing my mind. I was thinking "what on EARTH is he saying, that's not a nursery rhyme, those aren't even French phrases."
You have to read it with an English accent to get the gist of it because if your really read the words in French you are nowhere near Humpty Dumpty.
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Will someone please help me out. I just plain do NOT get this. I've been looking at it for ten minutes and it makes no sense.
TEd, who may never pun again (well, no that's not strictly true.) But I still don't get this!
TEd
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I just plain do NOT get this.
TEd, can I sit with you while we wait?
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Thank you, bel! Long ago and far away, I took French in college, learning (and remembering) just enough to know how to pronounce the words in the nursery rhyme - made no sense whatsoever. Even trying it en Anglaise didn't help - until you provided the Rosetta Stone, Humpty Dumpty! Merci bien 
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