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(Message started by: maryl on Jun 12^th, 2003, 7:52am)

Title: With a ruthless guide I wander over hairy mountain
Post by maryl on Jun 12^th, 2003, 7:52am

Avec un guide impitoyable,
Je parcours les monts chevelus,
Ou je poursuis un monstre, aux humains redoubtable;
C'est aux jeunes taillis que je chasse le plus,
Et souvent j'y vais faire un carnage effroyable
De ces monstres cruels, sous mes dents, abattus.
(With a ruthless guide,
I wander over hairy mountains,
Where I pursue a monster, dreaded by humans.
It is in the young brushwood that I hunt the most,
And often I inflict a frightful carnage
On those cruel monsters, slaughtered under my teeth.)
--Lamotte, 1800

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by Icarus on Jun 12^th, 2003, 4:13pm

I don't want to nitpick here, but are you sure your translation is accurate? :D

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by maryl on Jun 13^th, 2003, 7:40am

on 06/12/03 at 16:13:19, Icarus wrote:

I don't want to nitpick here, but are you sure your translation is accurate? :D

Is that a guess?
BTW, did you mean the English version, if so, this will have to do. It does sound a little strange doesn't it?

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by aero_guy on Jun 13^th, 2003, 3:33pm

I think we should refer to Icarus's picture.

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by Coe on Jun 13^th, 2003, 3:40pm

some sort of [hide] feline [/hint] that hunts in the brush? but what does it hunt that we dread?

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by Icarus on Jun 13^th, 2003, 8:15pm

Maryl - I'm sorry! There was nothing wrong with the translation. If you knew me better, you would know never to take my word on anything relating to the meaning of any word not in English! I have no talent for foreign languages. :-X

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by maryl on Jun 17^th, 2003, 11:00am

on 06/13/03 at 15:40:55, Coe wrote:

some sort of [hide] feline [/hint] that hunts in the brush? but what does it hunt that we dread?

It's not a feline. Run through it again.

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by aero_guy on Jun 17^th, 2003, 12:42pm

[hide]axes[/hide]?

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by maryl on Jun 17^th, 2003, 12:45pm

on 06/17/03 at 12:42:25, aero_guy wrote:

[hide]axes[/hide]?

Ouch!

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by aero_guy on Jun 17^th, 2003, 12:47pm

Damn, just got it. I see where you would say ouch. I could comment on the other answers but I don't want to nit pick.

Title: Re: With a ruthless guide...
Post by Icarus on Jun 18^th, 2003, 8:03pm

So you had a lousy time with this one?