Si tu t'imagines
Valeriu Raut さんによって投稿されました。Wenn du dir einbildest...
| 1. | Parlez-moi d'amour |
| 2. | On n'oublie rien |
| 3. | Coin de rue |
| 1. | sich im Kreis drehen |
domuro 
silenced
日, 08/11/2020 - 19:19
Xa va xa va xa -> that's a funny phonetic rendition of "qu'ça va..." (que ça va...) :)
same for "za", a materialization of the way a "z" is pronounced in "des amours" ("dézamour")
I second domuro's remark, "ongles de nacre" is about pearly nails, though "nacre" is usually associated with teeth.
And all the allusions to roses hint at this classic poem.
Lobolyrix
月, 09/11/2020 - 17:21
Xa va xa va xa - I understood that as you explain it, but I have omitted the translation here in order to preserve the drollness of the dialect (isn't it the idiom of the Ch'ti in Picardy?). The joke would be lost if it were translated...
Anyway, thank you for your comment... :)
Floppylou
月, 09/11/2020 - 19:59
It could be from Ch'ti, although with our different accents it would more sound like : "ksôva" (in North like Dunkerque, Lille) or "Kxavā" (South, Cambrai and cities around). Raymond Queneau was from Normandy, but his art and Oulipo movement was based on play-on-words, so…
I agree with you, the joke would be lost in English, so l would have let it as it is too ;)
Wikipédia :
Si tu t'imagines est un poème de Raymond Queneau, initialement intitulé C'est bien connu. Il est paru dans le recueil L'Instant fatal (1948).
Le poème fut remis à Juliette Gréco par Jean-Paul Sartre qui lui conseillait des poèmes à mettre en chansons.
Il fut mis en musique par Joseph Kosma et interprété par Juliette Gréco en 1947.
La Cuisse de Nymphe est une variété de rose.