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Old 02-19-2010, 02:27 PM
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Actually the crappy French with signs of emerging from an on-line translator is probably good evidence for these silly folk that we're not French pretenders to foreignness.
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Old 02-19-2010, 02:27 PM
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Nonono...you guys are doin' it wrong!

Regardez, svp:





Get it right next time, huh? Jeez...!
LOL, Ruroshen.
Too bad you can't post that on ChartsinFrance!

Unbelievable that some of those cretins still doubt that her american fans are for real..it only takes a few clicks to get here after all.
Or these are simply Alizée-haters who know better and do it on purpose..
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Old 02-19-2010, 03:48 PM
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Is there a good enough understanding of this song yet so someone can put it into layman's terms so stupid people like me can understand it?

In the first melody, she is being hunted. Hunted by who?

In the second melody, she says she has to leave N.Y. city, a city she loved.
Now she's going to the Hesperides. I guess from these interpretations we've had so far, that means she is going to Eden.
Is this Eden in fact Corsica?

But what is she saying in the last part of the second melody.
When she says I will go dress, does that she is going to treat the physical wounds or maybe wounds of the heart and what exactly do the timid big cats and the wounded swan represent? Big cats, is that kind of like big shots?


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Here's my take on the French bits:

Thanks to Deepwaters for input.
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The Hills

Hunted, I've reached the hills,
I've gone underground,
Thrown off the hound-dogs, covered my tracks,
Disguised my flight,
My bags are empty, my heart light,
Light

...

New York, I'm sorry, I loved you so,
But I have to go,
Your neverending windows*, your golden skyline,
I'll do without them,*
Beside the Hesperides, I will go dress
The timid big-cats, the wounded swans,
Wounded
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*Shop windows
*Literally: I want to do without them.

prendre le maquis: d'origine corse, signifiant se réfugier dans la forêt pour se soustraire aux autorités ou à une vendetta

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Old 02-19-2010, 03:49 PM
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Just post the pic of the letter she sent to AA for them.
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Old 02-19-2010, 04:08 PM
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There is a Buddhist story about a wounded swan coming from the childhood of Prince Siddhartha (the future Buddha). Siddhartha's cousin shot a swan in flight. It fell where Siddhartha could reach it first, and he took it and nursed it back to health. His cousin insisted that, having shot the swan, it belonged to him. The two boys took the question to the local wise man, who ruled that a life belonged to the one who saved it, not the one who tried to destroy it. In some versions of the story, Siddhartha is said to have gone him one better by releasing the swan to freedom, saying that its life belonged to the bird itself.
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Old 02-19-2010, 05:00 PM
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Ed, Aaron, everyone else - Nice job! Thanks and thanks and thanks and thanks and thanks and thanks and thanks and thanks and thanks and thanks !!!!! It looks like we're driving them crazy over there!!!

But a little caution - DON'T WORRY ABOUT TRYING TO TRANSLATE INTO FRENCH!!!! Just use everyday English. Add any old expressions or slang terms you want! But esp if you're depending on an online translator, DON'T!!!!

likewise, Edcognito said he's a not normally a ventilator. (I should hope you're not, Ed! ) Bless you both no matter what, though! I'm sure we're getting through to them that we're NOT a hoax, that we really ARE Alizée's American fans, and that we may actually even outnumber them! (Heaven forbid!)

Great goin' all y'all! And isn't this fun? Bye 4 now, Chuck.

Ok, THAT made me lol!

No, I'm not a ventilator, might need one if I keep laughing like that (DAM BABBLEFISH!)

How do I say "I'm a fan" of Alizée" instead of "I'm a small electronic device for moving air around a room..."?
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Old 02-19-2010, 05:19 PM
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Je suis un fan d'Alizée.

It's an English loan word but it's in common use.
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Old 02-19-2010, 05:36 PM
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Je suis un fan d'Alizée.

It's an English loan word but it's in common use.
Bloody hell, it really shows how much it pays to actually KNOW a language...
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Random and off track, but PDH i just have to ask, who is that girl as your avatar? I always wanted to ask just cuz I dunno.
Alizee...
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Old 02-19-2010, 09:42 PM
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Alizee...
Yah I figured that out after awhile. I figured out that you were in school(i think you are(oh yah you ride the bus so yah haha)), but before that I didn't wan't to say, "Who's that hot chick as your avatar", Cuz I thought it might be your wife haha.

But yah I never saw a close-up of her from that red carpet appearance thingy she did where she looked more perfect thatn ever...
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