Saturday, 31 December 2011
Dictionary addenda
donner un coup d'paûmé à tchitch'un = call someone cupping one's hands round one's mouth
Eune Bouonne Nouvelle Année
Bouonne nouvelle année, bouonnes gens,Ieune miyeuthe qué chelle dé d'vant!
Jours sans peine, et nyits sans plieurs;
Porte freumée contre les docteurs;
D'aigrifîns être à l'abri;
Rein à faithe auve lé fôssyi:
V'lo l'heutheuse nouvelle année,
Tchi par nous vos est souhaitée!
Magène 2012
Magène plianne pouor 2012:
- Sortie du livre bilingue de Guy du Hammé de Hâot : "Dauns ma leunette à mireus (Par le bout de ma lorgnette)" (35 chroniques).
- Participation à l'édition du gros dictionnaire français-normand et nor-fr. aux Editions Eurocibles.
- Préparation d'un 13ème CD de chansons après "La Dentélyire".
White Leaping Flame: Sorley MacLean
Y'a eune èrveue dans The Guardian d'eune collection d'poésies Êcôssaises dé Sorley MacLean:White Leaping Flame by Sorley MacLean: A collection that explodes the cliché of Gaelic poetry, reviewed in The Guardian:
The reader without Gaelic is undeniably at a disadvantage, and will have to turn to the online recordings of MacLean if they want to hear him properly; but MacLean poses challenges to Gaelic speakers too. As Christopher Whyte notes in his concise, illuminating introduction, "MacLean's poetry could not have been generated exclusively from within the Gaelic tradition. He is an exquisitely bicultural figure …" In both art and politics, MacLean was an internationalist, attacking more insular forms of Scottish nationalism and peopling his work with poets from Blok to Lorca, and political leaders from Connolly to Lenin.
There is a sentimental stereotype of Gaelic as a melancholy, exhausted language, able to convey little beyond sadness at its own imminent demise, a musical instrument that plays only in a minor key. MacLean exploded this cliché by tackling the most pressing concerns of his time: politics, nationhood, the Spanish civil war, the rise of European fascism and the experience of war.
Un but d'la Bibl'ye - Scripture snippet
Un drein but en Jèrriais d'la Bibl'ye pouor l'annivèrsaithe d'la vèrsion Angliaîche d'la Bibl'ye dite du Rouai Jacques, ou Autorisée:The last of our Jèrriais Scripture snippets marking the anniversary of the English translation of the Bible known as the King James or Authorised Version:
Quand Jésû entrit siez Pièrre, il êpyit sa belle-méthe au cârré, malade d'eune fièvre. I' touchit sa main et ou fut r'dgéthie et ou sé l'vit et les sèrvit. Et chu sé-là, nou lî'am'nit un fliotchet des cheins tch'avaient des mauvais esprits; et i' renv'yit les mauvais esprits hors dg'ieux atout eune pathole et r'dgéthit touos les cheins tchi 'taient malades. Chennechîn 'tait à seule fîn d'ag'ver chein qu'Esaie avait dit: "I' prînt nos fouaiblièches et suffatchit nos maux." Assa quand Jésû vit un grand amas d'monde à l'entou d'li, i' c'mandit qu'nou crouaîsîsse à l'aut' bord. Un êcrivain vînt don et lî dit, "Maît', j'té siéthai ioù qu'tu vais." Et Jésû lî dit, "Les r'nards lus r'nardent et l'ouaîth'lîn du ciel s'aniche, mais l'Fis d'l'houmme n'a nusse part à s'tâner." Et un aut' discipl'ye lî dit, "Seigneu, laîsse-mé preunmiéthement m'n aller honother man d'funt péthe." Mais Jésû lî dit, "Veins acanté mé, et laîsse les morts à lus entr'-entèrrer." (Matchi, 8: 14-22)
Friday, 30 December 2011
Not' Bouôn Vièr Temps - Auld Lang Syne
Auld Lang Syne en Jèrriais:Auld Lang Syne in Jèrriais:
Les patholes dé chutte vèrsion-chîn:
The lyrics of this version:
Janmais nou n'pouôrra oublier
L's années lus entré-sièvent mais i' n'lus entré-r'sembl'yent pon. Ch'est en tchi châque année a san catico d'bouôn et d'ma. J'dithons adgi à ch't' année-chîn au Tchu d'l'An - viyant qué jé n'pouôrrons pon lî dithe à bétôt ou à la préchaine. Et quand 2011 paqu'tha ses quat' quémînses en chîn ballots, y'en a tchi lî dithont bouonne dêbâte, et y'en a d'aut's tchi r'grett'tont l'pâssage d'eune année d'jouaie bordée d'souaie et d'bouonne mémouaithes.
In 20 years no-one will speak English...
OUP badinne:
So what’s the evidence that English is dying? After all, it’s still spoken by several hundred million people living in anglophone homelands. “Well, we know,” claims ČEPI’s Caxton, “that if English wasn’t dying, then why are there so many statutes trying to prop it up by making English the official language of states, businesses, and schools? Why would so many people insist that English needs protection from other languages? Why are the directions for assembling furniture and toys always in pictures, not in English?”
“Why, also, would there be so many groups focused on correcting and improving English, purifying it, making sure that it’s protected from native English speakers as well as from foreigners?” Caxton added.
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Êpouss'téthie - Dusting
- êpouss'ter = to dust
- êpouss'tilyi = to dust lightly; to shake up, to get going (a project, an action)
- êpouss'tilyi = ruffles; wide-awake, lively
- à l'êpouss'tilliette = quickly, hastily; lively; ruffled, dishevelled
un êpouss'teux
Des criatuthes d'l'avanteu - Deep sea creatures
The Guardian rapporte la dêmuch'chie d'nouvelles manniéthes dans l'avanteu.
New species identified in the depths of the ocean.
- crabe êpouss'térêsse = yeti crab
- colînmachon d'mé à pid d'fé = scaly-foot snail
- cocombre dé mé = sea cucumber
- chèrvette dé pèrtu = vent shrimp
- nièr feunmâtcheux = black smoker
- pèrtu hydrothèrma = hydrothermal vent
Dictionary addenda
- à eune braichie près = very nearly
- à pèrte d'veue = as far as the eye can see
- en ahan = furious
- s'accanchi = approach, get close to; get mixed up in, get involved with; spend time with
- adgetter = hesitate, haver
- aheuqu'ter = stammer, stutter; stop speaking, dry up, corpse (while speaking); hesitate, haver
- aheurt = bump, knock, collision; bad luck, misfortune
- aheutchi = stammer, stutter; stop speaking, dry up, corpse (while speaking); hesitate, haver
- s'aheutchi = stop, be forced to a halt, come to a dead halt; stop speaking, dry up
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Un but d'la Bibl'ye - Scripture snippet
Des buts en Jèrriais d'la Bibl'ye pouor l'annivèrsaithe d'la vèrsion Angliaîche d'la Bibl'ye dite du Rouai Jacques, ou Autorisée. Aniet ch'est la Fête des Innouothants:Jèrriais Scripture snippets to mark the anniversary of the English translation of the Bible known as the King James or Authorised Version. Today is the Feast of the Innocents:
Lé Seigneu dit chennechîn: À Rama nou ouïyait des brais, d'la plieuth'thie et d'la vèrséthie d'fraides lèrmes; Râché lamentait ses mousses; nou n'pouôrra pon souôlagi sa pèrte car i' sont hors. (Jérémie, 31: 15)
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
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