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- From: 2020211@SAPHIR.ULAVAL.CA (Sylvain Chamberland)
- Subject: Re: Picard's garbled dialogue (was Re: Lynch's Review of CoC2)
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:51:38 GMT
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- In article <1hkh70INNsoi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, rfd@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard F. Drushel) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, tlynch@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy W. Lynch) says:
- >
- >>--Could someone with a closed-captioning decoder please let me know what
- >>Picard's final lines are after "You cannot hurt me!" I've gone over it
- >>several times, but damned if I can make it out...
- >
- > I don't have a closed-caption recorder, but I did recognize
- >what he was saying...he was singing in French, the same song he was
- >singing to himself earlier while reminiscing about his childhood.
- >
- [deletions]
- >to throw in French words and phrases). So please no language flames :) :)
- >
- > Sur la pont
- > D'Avignon
- > Loni danse, loni danse
- >
- >(On the bridge of Avignon, people dance, people dance)
- >
- > French scholars please feel free to supply the remainder of
- >the song, and to correct the spelling :)
-
- Well, I'm not a French scholar, but as a French-speaking person, I can say it's
-
- Sur le pont
- d'Avignon
- l'on y dance, l'on y dance
-
- But I can't remember the rest! (I can memorize the weight of chemical
- elements, all the phone numbers of friends I haven't seen in years, the social
- numbers of all members of my family, but impossible to remember words of a
- song! Maybe I should try memorizing ascii numbers instead... ;-) )
-
- >Richard F. Drushel ****** Ph.D. in Developmental Biology as of 4:45 PM 9211.20
- >rfd@po.cwru.edu ** Cleveland FreeNet ** Co-Sysop, Coleco ADAM Forum ** Go Z80!
- >"The bright and blinding sunlight shines so hotly on the trash-heaps that mere
- >undigested food and snotty Kleenex flow as rivers of milk and honey." - c.5253
-
- Sylvain Chamberland
- 2020211@saphir.ulaval.ca
-