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Title: need help on french homework
Post by: kasperl on March 04, 2003, 06:12:35 am
i need a favor from one of the French members here, i have to write a poem for my French class, and i suck at both French AND writing poems. it somehow has to do something with love, and at least 10 lines long. any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Tiara on March 04, 2003, 06:18:37 am
I know how to speak French, but when I write it, it always comes out full of typos and grammar mistakes.

Now I could make a Russian, English, Dutch, German, Spanish or Italian poem, but that doesn't help much here :p

My lesser languages are: Japanese, Chinese, French

And I must admit that my Spanish isn't 100% either :p
Title: Re: need help on french homework
Post by: Nico on March 04, 2003, 06:20:08 am
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Originally posted by kasperl
i need a favor from one of the French members here, i have to write a poem for my French class, and i suck at both French AND writing poems. it somehow has to do something with love, and at least 10 lines long. any help here would be greatly appreciated.


sure, I can help, what do you need? dunno, write something in english and I'll translate?
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: kasperl on March 04, 2003, 06:36:33 am
as i said, i also suck at writing poems in general, so if we could start with just some inspiration, or a good, web based poem generator in french
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Nico on March 04, 2003, 07:47:44 am
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Originally posted by kasperl
as i said, i also suck at writing poems in general, so if we could start with just some inspiration, or a good, web based poem generator in french


well, search for one, coz I'm nothing like a poet or someone who would know anything about that. find someone to make one for you or anything, and I'll translate.
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: CP5670 on March 04, 2003, 12:56:12 pm
having to write a poem about love in a language you don't know...ouch. :blah: :D
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: kasperl on March 04, 2003, 01:29:21 pm
ouch, indeed. especially since this is my third year of french and i'm only capable of saying :"je ne parles pas francais", "i don't speak French". i don't know what the problem is with languishes, since my english is reasonable, but my German and French are terrible. even my with mother language , Dutch, i make loads of spelling errors. anyway, i'll see what i can come op with for a poem, but i'd still like ideaes...
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Tiara on March 04, 2003, 01:37:05 pm
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Originally posted by kasperl
i'm only capable of saying :"je ne pas parelz francais", "i don't speak French".


And even that is wrong :p

Its "Je ne parle pas Francais".

And even this "might" be wrong :p
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Nico on March 04, 2003, 01:52:04 pm
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Originally posted by Tiara


And even that is wrong :p

Its "Je ne parle pas Francais".

And even this "might" be wrong :p


well, it's "français" ( the "ç" ), but otherwise it's good :)
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: kasperl on March 04, 2003, 01:52:28 pm
ack, damn typo, i'll edit that right away.
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Tiara on March 04, 2003, 02:00:23 pm
I am not good at peotry but I just thought I'd give it a shot.

Love moves in strange ways
Finally you meet some one

That person whispers the words to you
The words that you have missed all these years

But in time the words fade
They are no longer enough

They were just a facade
A mask around an empty shell

But then again, words cannot define love
It cannot be defined
It must be felt

The warm touch of love
Something that never fades
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Riven on March 04, 2003, 02:16:04 pm
ooooo, me i think i'll borrow that as a bit of a chat up line :wink:
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Goober5000 on March 04, 2003, 05:24:25 pm
Omelette, gentil omelette,
Omelette, je te mangerai.

Je t'apporterai la lait,
Je t'apporterai la lait,
Et la lait, et la lait,
Oh...

Omelette gentil omelette,
Omelette, je te mangerai.

Je te casserai les oeufs,
Je te casserai les oeufs,
Et les oeufs, et les oeufs,
Et la lait, et la lait,
Oh...
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Knight Templar on March 04, 2003, 06:02:20 pm
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Omelette, gentil omelette,


:lol:

that would make the most kick ass quote if I didn't know it was in another language. :p





:D
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Sesquipedalian on March 05, 2003, 02:35:48 am
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Omelette, gentil omelette,
Omelette, je te mangerai.

Je t'apporterai la lait,
Je t'apporterai la lait,
Et la lait, et la lait,
Oh...

Omelette gentil omelette,
Omelette, je te mangerai.

Je te casserai les oeufs,
Je te casserai les oeufs,
Et les oeufs, et les oeufs,
Et la lait, et la lait,
Oh...
:lol: (<-- No, really!)
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Goober5000 on March 05, 2003, 02:41:15 am
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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
:lol: (<-- No, really!)


:D

I'm trying to come up with more verses, but rhyming French words doesn't come naturally to me. ;)
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Nico on March 05, 2003, 02:57:31 am
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Omelette, gentille omelette,
Omelette, je te mangerai.

Je t'apporterai le lait,
Je t'apporterai le lait,
Et le lait, et le lait,
Oh...

Omelette gentille omelette,
Omelette, je te mangerai.

Je te casserai les oeufs,
Je te casserai les oeufs,
Et les oeufs, et les oeufs,
Et le lait, et le lait,
Oh...


ROFL, what is that :lol: makes little sense, but is funny as hell :D
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Goober5000 on March 05, 2003, 03:10:50 am
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Omelette, gentille omelette,
...
Et le lait, et le lait


Oops. :nervous:

Of all the things wrong with English, at least we don't have to worry about gender. :)
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: kasperl on March 05, 2003, 04:04:55 am
lol, that's funny! but on the other hand, i doubt that it'll give me a passing grade. but it gave me a good laugh!
Title: need help on french homework
Post by: Tiara on March 05, 2003, 08:34:17 am
Ask Venom to translate mine... Or shove it into Babelfish translator ifr there is no other alternative.