jc6chan
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Si la musique soyez la nourriture d'amour, jouez!!
(Is that how Shakespeare would say it in "La Douzième Nuit??")  |
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phil777
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| that'd be "est" instead of "soyez". Verbs that end with z in french usually are in the second person of the plural form, OR the imperative tense (as if you'd give an order, command or advice), which is the case with "jouez". |
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jc6chan
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| phil777 wrote: | | that'd be "est" instead of "soyez". Verbs that end with z in french usually are in the second person of the plural form, OR the imperative tense (as if you'd give an order, command or advice), which is the case with "jouez". |
But don't you "command" that the music be the food of love? (Yes, I know it's a really abstract concept) |
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sMeow
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Nope. You "notice" that the music is the food of love. But "play !" is an order.
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phil777
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The translation in english would be: "If music is the food of love, [then] play!"
"is" is the present tense in english, right? Makes sense that it'd be present tense in french as well then. =/ |
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| As it's a hypothetical sentence, should the verb be in the subjunctive? Which would be 'soit' I think. The English translation is actually 'If the food of music be love', which I think is the subjunctive. |
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phil777
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think it's a poetic form that translates well into french... I'd just need to switch "music" and "love" from places, right? |
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jc6chan
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| phil777 wrote: | The translation in english would be: "If music is the food of love, [then] play!"
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"Then play" and "play on" mean the same thing. |
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phil777
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| More or less, the first would be a "conclusion" , if you will, whereas the second would be enjoining you to do so (playing). Anyways, semantics. =/ |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| Etre ou pas etre...ca c'est la question. |
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phil777
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Ça marche en québécois, mais en français international, c'est plutôt : "Être ou ne pas être, tel est la question" ~.~ |
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| "Avant l'heure, c'est pas l'heure ; après l'heure, c'est plus l'heure." |
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| visage carré |
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Mille millions de mille sabords! Tonnerre de Brest! Sapajous! Flibustier! Moule à gaufre!  (Une gaufre (#) à l'anglophone qui est capable de me dire d'où ça vient! ) |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| Justin Bieber est très laide!! |
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