The work is only intelligible if read in english with a french accent. Gousses, rames the dantin manuscripts has 0 available edition to buy at half price books marketplace. Luis dantin van rooten french verses constructed to reproduce phonetically a selection of mother goose rhymes in english. The dantin manuscript mother gooses rhymes, published in 1967 by luis dantin van rooten is purportedly a collection of poems written in archaic french with learned glosses. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Jsblog journal of a southern bookreader monday, 31 december 2007. Zukofsky made the connection between swift and mots dheures. You have to manually edit the dictionary file to undo this. Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner ladle cordage, honor itch offer lodge dock florist. A form of humor similar to fractured french appears in the collection of mother goose rhymes in mots dheures. Gousses, ramesare phonetic transliterations of english mother goose rhymes into french, which he then presents, with serious exegesis, as a critical edition of a collection of medieval french verse. Disk ladle gull orphan worry ladle cluck wetter putty ladle rat hut, an fur disk raisin pimple colder ladle rat rotten hut. Gousses, rames 2 came to my hand would be too tedious and of but little moment here.
Gousses, rames, you wonder where they expected to find enough people to appreciate its brilliance. Gousses, rames discovered, edited, and annotated by luis dantin van rooten, london, angus and robertson, 1967. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Gousses, rames are variations on the same theme, and theres not much we can say about one that we cant say about the other except of course details like author, number of entries, etc. When i was browsing in a used book shop in melbourne, i found it on a shelf labeled books on books, but im not sure thats where it belongsor where it possibly could belong, for that matter. Suffice it to say these curious verses were part of the. Four as a mystic number has had, in the superstitious lore of many countries, a sinister or unlucky quality. Gousses, rames came to my hand would be too tedious and of but little moment here. Gousses, rames the dantin manuscript discovered, edited, and annotated by luis dantin van rooten. If you are looking for a book atlas of human sperm morphology in pdf format, then youve come to. This would seem to be a rehash of the old tristram and iseult legend.
A definition of information is suggested, which attempts to encapsulate the nature of information implied by the model. I assume most people here are aware of mots dheures. In fact, they are englishlanguage nursery rhymes written homophonically as a nonsensical french text, that is an englishtofrench homophonic translation. Discovered, edited and annotated by luis dantin van rooten.
I looked it over and handed it back and told her that i didnt speak or read a word of french. No, it comes a 1967 book by louis dantin van rooten, mots dheures. New york, grossman publishers, 1967 dlc 67021230 ocolc1208360. The following dialogs must be read as though they were written in italian, or they dont work well. The dantin manuscript mother gooses rhymes, published in 1967 by luis dantin van rooten is purportedly a collection of. To detail the exact manner by which the dantin mss. I first heard of this unique collection a few years back while attending on of my linguistics courses when our professor recited one of the poems. A definition of information a definition of information a.
I agree that its evidence for the cantonese nl merger, but i would spell out the reason differently. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. And when it comes to mother goose there is the incomparable mots dheures. But its actually a homophonic translation of mother goose rhymes from english to french. View profile view forum posts view articles ive climbed a cellphone tower join date. In 1967, american dialect actor luis dantin van rooten published his nowclassic mots dheures. The whole volume is an esoteric joke aimed at native speakers of english who have studied.
The phonetic annotations are rather reminiscent of the old mots dheures. I remember my junior high school librarian pulling me aside one day and shoving a copy into my hands. Luis dantin van rooten mots dheures blue ridge journal. Mots dheures project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The name of the desy facility is short for deutches elektronensynchrotron. Gousses, rames the dantin manuscripts by luis dantin van rooten volume editor starting at. Gousses, rames the dantin manuscripts has 2 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. You should know some french, and you should know some nursery rhymes.
The internet archive is proud to be distributing over 1 million books free in a format called daisy, designed for those of us who find it challenging to use regular printed media there are two types of daisys on open library. I propose that we think of this article as about the two of them together. It runs the gamut from touchingly nostalgic to raucous. I work with german physicists, and none of them use any word but synchrotron for a relativistic ring accelerator. Gousses, rames is one of the greatest literary entertainments ever written. Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, humor, macaronic literature. Suffice it to say these curious verses were part of the meagre possessions of one francois charles fernand dantin, retired school teacher, who died at the age of ninetythree in january of the year of our lord, 1950, while marking papers. Mots dheures, gousses, rames by luis dantin van rooten. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1. Gousses, rames, which is a compilation of a supposed dantin manuscript. In the classic example of luis dantin van rootens mots dheures.
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