[TUHS] Warning: April Fools
markus schnalke
meillo at marmaro.de
Sun Apr 2 22:29:03 AEST 2023
Hoi,
As Noel already mentioned, it's from the Song of Roland. See here,
the beginning of this old french version:
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Chanson_de_Roland/L%C3%A9on_Gautier/%C3%89dition_critique/Premi%C3%A8re_partie
meillo
[2023-04-02 23:18] Wesley Parish <wobblygong at gmail.com>
>
> "Charles the King, our great emperor"
>
> (and the rest I can only guess at. It's referring to King Chuck the Great, Karl
> der Gross, Charlemagne. Or if you like, the Great and Magnificent King Upchuck.
> :) ) It's not Spanish; I thought it had a touch of Occitan/Catalan, but I could
> be wrong.
>
> Wesley Parish
>
> On 2/04/23 19:39, Noel Hunt wrote:
>
> Charles li reis, nostre emperesdre magnes, Set anz totz pleinz ad ested in
> Espagnes.
> A translation would be most helpful. It looks like a mixture
> of Spanish and Mediaevel French...ah, it is the La Chanson de
> Roland.
>
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 03:55, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
>
> See also <https://godfatherof.nl/kremvax.html>.
>
> Yesterday, indeed, I got an obviously misdirected email on my work
> account, I clicked on a link in it to try to figure out what had gone
> wrong, and found myself on a page informing me that $EMPLOYER had just
> phished me, and I was being sent to a re-education camp (well, in fact
> I just had to look at some slides and answer questions). Of course,
> it's very difficult to train people out of being careless and
> impulsive.
>
> --
>
> John Cowan {backbones}!rutgers!hombre!magpie!cowan
> Charles li reis, nostre emperesdre magnes,
> Set anz totz pleinz ad ested in Espagnes.
>
>
>
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