[TUHS] Warning: April Fools

[markus schnalke]

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.
> 
> 
>