IV.
Une heure plus tard...
Avec Mogette Miniature
In the summer fleurs
And Big Mogette
The sun was down below
In the summer fleurs
And Big Mogette
The sun was down below
The canopy of oak trees
(Quercus Robusta, if you, chers et chères Mogettistes
Would like to know)
And Proprio was busy, très occupé encore
Adjusting Mogette’s CULBUTEURS
« A funny word, un mot bien drôle »
Remarqua la Petite Citroën…
« What do you mean, mon petit chou, my dear profiterolle ? »
Demanda le Propriétaire...
« Eh bien…CULBUTEUR, bien sûr ;
From the word CUL, (en
anglais BOTTOM or, more informally, BUM )
Or BUTT or ASS en anglais
Americ-an,
In French the cylinder head is CULASSE…
Oui, oui, CUL-ASS, you see !
As in Cul de Sac, an anglais IMPASSE…
And en français nous avons « Cul de poule »
(which is a mixing bowl, and not the bum of a chicken...)
And BUTEUR, which is not butter or beurre,
...or margarine
But from the verb « BUTER »
Which, en anglais is to KICK
A buteur is a footballeur...
Proprio. See what I mean?"
A buteur is a footballeur...
Proprio. See what I mean?"
Proprio répondit:
« My dear Mogette
Merci
For the KICKING of ASS
étymologie
Cependant, however, as you can see
I am more interressé
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| Just as soon as you can reach those pedals, mon petit... |
At précisément
Huit millièmes de pouce
(or the équivalent in dixièmes of millimètres)
Bicoz
If they are trop large or too… LOOSE
Your moteur will not start when FROID
And I, Proprio will be LE ROI
Des CONS : a silly ASS
And, when hot, your
CARBU
it will…
TOUSSE.
And then, what shall we do ?
And Mogette, who has many connaissances and much knowledge
Looked across at the green garden hedge
And, very modestly
Delivered another leçon of vocabulary :
"O. U. G. H...
She started off:
A bizarre English collection of four letters
Which I will help you
To undertand a little better...
Voici la leçon, mécano-proprio:
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| With culbuteurs ajustés, Mogette can climb all day...(Mont Ventoux, 2019) |
« in English TOUSSE is COUGH
Which rhymes with OFF
But not with TOUGH or ROUGH
Which sound like FLUFF
But not with TOUGH or ROUGH
Which sound like FLUFF
And not with BOUGH, or PLOUGH
Which rhyme with COW
COUGH does not rhyme with PETERBOROUGH
Or with THOROUGH
COUGH does not rhyme with PETERBOROUGH
Or with THOROUGH
Or THROUGH
Which rhymes with YOU)
« Who, ME ? »
Répondit Le Proprio
Who had stopped listening
A minute or more ago...
"Ma chère Mogette
I love you and your vocabulary antics
But, quelquefois, sometimes
You can become a bit pedantic..."
Who had stopped listening
A minute or more ago...
"Ma chère Mogette
I love you and your vocabulary antics
But, quelquefois, sometimes
You can become a bit pedantic..."
V.
And there
In the COOLER evening air
Mogette et Propriétaire
LAUGHED OUT LOUD
« LOL » en anglais
Said Proprio
« MDR » traduisit la CeeVee Two
Not pédantique du tout :
Not pédantique du tout :
"Mort De Rire…Et in hilaria ego !"
And so
It goes without saying
Ca va sans dire
That the only thing to do now
Was, après pause pour une BEER
Bien fraîche,
To put the wings
back on La Deuche
Then, allons-y et Go Go Go
En route pour les faux-bilingual aventures
With Culasses and with Culbuteurs.
AB 08 2019
