Lamiller
michealt
Cmt, 16/03/2019 - 09:50
I wondered if all the future tense in the first stanza is sort of conditional (Je voudrais tellement partir is conditional, not subjunctive, and "je veux tellement partir" is indicative; I guess you were thinking of something like "je voudrais tellement que je parte" which is conditional with a subjunctive subordinate clause), which could mean the second (two-line) stanza would effectively negate the first. And also wondered if "tellement" when qualifying "partirai" could mean "de tant" (de tant de choses or de tant de gens) or "tant de fois" in Canadian French. Or if "tellement aujourdhui" could mean "at the end of today" which would be a bit redundant given the next line. The obvious temptation is to translate tellement as "so much" or "so many" or "so often" but I decided to put "so thoroughly" because it would encourage proof-readers to think hard about it, and eventually at least one speaker of Canadian French might correct it. Probably a forlorn hope.
I've fixed a typo in the translation: "a midnight" is now "at midnight"
I don't think missing "en" was a small typo - thanks for spotting it and fixing it. And parté for parter is not exactly a small error either.
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