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>Quand on se soumet à Mozart, tous sont absous d'humeurs bizarres
>C'est épatant, Arthur, ça rimait!
I'm thinking about translating The Learned Disguise into French. If anything I think the book would benefit from that. The above translated lines are already a massive improvement, because well now it actually does rhyme. Perhaps Waldun should go the route of Beckett and begin writing in French.

>> No.20365895

i beg you, share what you've translated so far, i have to read it

>> No.20366038

>>20365895
It was a joke. That's all I've translated. I honestly don't know if I could actually do it lol. My French isn't really that good. I can just read in French and used to be able to somewhat speak and understand it.

>> No.20366978

I still think we should write the third Waldun novel.

>> No.20367112

>>20366978
How do we organize?

>> No.20367174
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20367174

>>20367112
idk, but i found my old L'Ecole first page on the archive from the golden days of Waldunmania. Perhaps you or whoever else can start by revising, adding to and/or completely overhauling that.

>> No.20367343

>>20365546
Even the French don't deserve such an attack.

>> No.20367449

>>20365546
Holy shit, French really brings out the homoerotic subtext without undermining the tonal repression.

>> No.20367521

I'd rather use « Quand on se livre à Mozart », but submits might be more in line with Waldun's vision.

>> No.20367568

>>20367521
even then it is clear how much of a hack Waldun is. it's hilarious he fucked up all key components of poetry in one line: sound, structure, and meaning. the intented rhyme doesn't sound right. the metre is bollox. and what does it mean to have a mood bizarre for fuck's sake?

>> No.20367947 [DELETED] 

>>20365546
Une rime doit être ou masculine ou féminine. Pas les deux. Apprends les règles de la poésie avant d'essayer de faire des rimes. Et traduit des trucs mieux que cette merde.

>> No.20368076

>>20367568
>the intented rhyme doesn't sound right
It rhymes in French. That's the joke.

>> No.20368530

>>20368076
>bee-zaar
>moh-tzart
The French are frogs, not braindead

>> No.20368557

>>20368530
That's not how the French pronounce Mozart. You just look really stupid now. I suggest putting the French sentences in the OP in Google Translate and having it read it aloud.

>> No.20369136

>>20366978
Who the fuck is Waldun.

>> No.20370134

>>20365546
>2022
>I am forgotten

>> No.20370659

>>20370134
Lmao, at least he has been posting more on his website, but damn, not even a year after his book release and he has already been forgotten

The leading up to his release was so much fun
Never forget the argonian skyrim mod

>> No.20370756

>>20370659
He's balding now and has a shit haircut. Makes his head look funny.

>> No.20371161

>>20365546
>translate Waldun into French
>completely bowlderize the text into something noteworthy
>flurry of legit press confounded he can't converse in French
hehehe

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>>20369136
Newfag.

>> No.20371426

>>20365546
>2020+2 and we still waldun posting

even waldun isn't reading anymore, let alone writing... let's leave it be boys

>> No.20371764

>>20365546
Are people still trying to shill this hack?

>> No.20371789

>>20371180
>piercing through the oak once planted by some old folk
holy SOUL

>> No.20372436

>>20371161
>>flurry of legit press confounded he can't converse in French
Waldun does speak French though.