I’ve been scratching my chin for ten minutes now, trying to decipher this poem:
Homme petit d’homme petit, s’attend, n’avale
Homme petit d’homme petit, à degrés de bègues folles
Anal deux qui noeuds ours, anal deux qui noeuds s’y mènent
Coup d’un poux tome petit tout guetteur à gaine
“Do you recognize this passage? No? Try reading it aloud. Cognitive scientists use it to illustrate the complexity of human communications.”
Nope. Still don’t get it. Maybe I should try reading it aloud with an English accent…
April 19th, 2007 at 12:54 pm »
It looks like it should be some Winnie the Poo rhyme, with a Hompedee Dompedee start.
I on’t get it, but it reminds me of a Dutch sentence done in the same fake French style:
D’ou velle ainsi ni d’homme.
It came to me with the (fake?) story that it was the motto of king Louis Napoleon who reigned over The Netherlands (and Belgium I presume, being the Dutch chauvinist pig I am) after we were beaten by the French. He was very benevolent with the Dutch and had this ‘French’ sentence made so he could pronounce his motto in Dutch.
I won’t post the Dutch sentence yet, so you you have two brain wrecking puzzels for your thursday amusement.
Jeroen
April 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pm »
You gotta not your english nursery rhymes
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty
April 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm »
It’s
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men,
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:59 pm »
Johan and I posted that one simultaneously.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:59 pm »
Johan: thanks — blessed relief!
Jeroen: damn you!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:01 pm »
(… for that second conundrum, I mean…)
April 19th, 2007 at 1:36 pm »
Lol, there was a picture of Humpty Dumpty ON the page, come on!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:49 pm »
“Damn you”??????
Now was that a nice way of asking for the solution?
April 19th, 2007 at 2:25 pm »
Rusty: here in Belgium (you know, the Old Europe?) Humpty Dumpty’s fame is, shall we say, less than stellar.
Jeroen: please give me the solution pretty pretty please with a cherry on top.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:08 pm »
Speaking of languages - a version:
“Hamti Damti ült a falon,
kényelmesen ült ő nagyon
De a nagy baj megesett
Hamti Damti leesett
Hiába a király lova
Hiába a sok katona
Hamti Damtit nem tudták ok összerakni
Soha, soha, soha!”
April 19th, 2007 at 3:17 pm »
Doe wel en zie niet om.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:28 pm »
D’où belle ainsi ni homme?
April 20th, 2007 at 1:40 am »
Badminton anyone?
April 21st, 2007 at 8:48 am »
And now we are on it that’s why all the president’s men is callen all the president’s men