{"id":436,"date":"2008-01-07T20:51:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T04:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2008-01-08T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T17:13:27","slug":"french-songs-on-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"French songs on the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mini-Elbeno is taking weekly French classes, and has a CD of French children&#8217;s songs, which we have been listening to for the past several weeks. I now know almost all of them and find myself humming them through the day. Some of them have catchy tunes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the well-known ISO standard skylark with all its pluckable parts*, there are also several others. Being children&#8217;s songs, they contain a hefty dose of nonsense (or at least <em>non sequitur<\/em>) and not a little violence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A green mouse (<em>une souris verte, qui courait dans l&#8217;herbe&#8230;<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Something like the French version of the okey cokey (<em>je fais un pas en avant<\/em> etc).<\/li>\n<li>A sort of French version of &#8220;one of these things is not like the other&#8221; (<em>pomme, peche, poire, abricot, il y en a une de trop<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li><em>Pomme de reinette et pomme d&#8217;api<\/em> which contains the scary warning <em>cachez un poing derri\u00c3\u00a8re votre dos ou vous aurez un coup de marteau<\/em>!<\/li>\n<li>Fish being eaten by steadily bigger sea creatures culminating in <em>grosse baleine<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>A pizza being made, delivered, then dropped on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>Something I haven&#8217;t completely deciphered yet concerning a peanut, a paper house, and the end of someone&#8217;s nose breaking off, flying away, and being retrieved by a jet plane. Seriously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Mini-Elbeno loves this one because, of course, of the body parts that we indicate to go with the song. This particular <em>alouette<\/em> has <em>une t\u00c3\u00aate<\/em>, <em>un bec<\/em> (although I&#8217;m not sure how one would pluck that), <em>deux ailes<\/em>, <em>un ventre<\/em> and <em>un dos<\/em> but curiously no <em>queue<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mini-Elbeno is taking weekly French classes, and has a CD of French children&#8217;s songs, which we have been listening to for the past several weeks. I now know almost all of them and find myself humming them through the day. Some of them have catchy tunes&#8230; In addition to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}