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Lolaska | 1. | Et même après je t'aimerai |
| 2. | Allez là |
| 3. | Amour censure |
| 1. | A bitter pill |
| 2. | bring down the house |
| 3. | bring the house down |
| 4. | c'est pas la mer à boire |
Gavin
Quinta-feira, 19/04/2018 - 09:37
That's sure is fun to read and good work chewing through all that word play - I'm still digesting it and will surely have a few thoughts presently. But first I must question the title - I get the "Striped" jersey but where do these barge women come from. Also - pay attention to spelling of striped - stripped means something altogether different! ;)
/edit - oh, can marinière be read as "sailorwoman"?
Gavin
Sexta-feira, 20/04/2018 - 09:46
So a marinière is usually a striped jersey (as worn by all frenchmen ;) ) and also could be a female marinier - rather good that!
Bargeman/woman is a bit specific though - I wonder if a more general "Sailorwoman seeks sailorman" would be better? Sounds a bit more natural (if a little less accurate). It's the sort of thing one might read in such an ad. I imagine...
That would also give the title a rather pleasing sibilance. :)
Gavin
Sexta-feira, 20/04/2018 - 14:28
I think it all looks pretty perfect already (except for one missed "stripped")
c'est pire qu'la mer à boire - perhaps some play on "hard to swallow" (difficult to accept)
Maybe "harder to swallow than a bitter pill" - that's conflating two idioms but maybe appropriate in this company?
J'sais pas si t'es au courant - seems a shame to lose that bit of wordplay. You can say "keep me current" in English but it's not half as common as it is in French...
Hmm - maybe "I don't know if you're up to speed" - no water but at least it evokes movement.
Qu'en penses-tu?
alex.nn
Segunda-feira, 28/05/2018 - 10:49
Thank you for this amazing effort of not just translating but also adding the notes explaining all the double entendre that the song is riddled with.
I though i was quite fluent in French, but only now i realise i had missed half of the wordplay in this song, so this was quite educational :)
Thx again!
MrCoco59
Quinta-feira, 15/12/2022 - 13:51
Hey there !
I love this song so much, I wanted to translate it for my English friends but after searching a bit I found this translation, so guess I don't have to lol
I did find 2 missed wordplays in the current version:
- line 16 "Je t'attends sur l'autre rive" : it's not just the other side of the road or something metaphorical as you'd most often understand it in English, it specifically says "the other side of the river" or "the other [river] bank".
- line 28 "Même si c'est la cata, c'est marrant" : this gets lost in translation, but if you isolate the last words of both parts of this line, you get "catamaran", a type of boat.
I created an account because I hoped to be able to add those myself but that's apparently not how this works here, I'm too used to wikis where you can just contribute wherever you want lol, but if somehow the OP sees this, could you add those two notes, please? :]
Hubert Clolus
Sexta-feira, 29/03/2024 - 21:29
Good evening, some clues:
- I'm looking for our linking line.
You threw it into the sea
To feed the fish and our April
Fool's day's poisoned fish.
..than a salty pill..
..we'll have tried..
J'aime vraiment bien cette chanson. Sa voix a quelque chose de touchant. Les jeux de mots sont bien trouvés et souvent marrants. La musique a la pêche (si j'ose dire). C'est sans prétention. Bref, ça m'a bien plu.
Je ne sais pas si ça parlera à des Anglais, mais en tous cas c'était carrément rigolo à traduire !