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Confession #385

[martinblackwoodlover]

This is quite random but I feel like Martin would love The Full Monty musical

[coquelicoq]

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle et multiple des questions que l'on n'ose poser et qui attendent pour tomber le souffle du plus courageux. ("Le Café des Chasseurs", Daniel Boulanger)

my experience reading this sentence:

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs

makes sense. this is a full sentence.

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle

okay, maybe this makes sense? the silence particular to conspirators [which had] blossomed from the pale pavilion? kind of weird though...maybe it's related to the next part instead.

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle et multiple

what

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle et multiple des questions

WHAT????

richard coward translates this as

Beneath the pergola, convolvulus-like, the peculiar silence of the plotters spread over everything and over the six invalids, and the many questions that no one dared utter, and which waited to be asked for the breath of the bravest amongst them, fluttered above them like as many pale flags. (New Penguin Parallel Text Short Stories in French, p 115)

he also has an endnote after "courait" which reads

The subject of this verb is le silence particulier. Boulanger uses the inversion to convey stylistically the all-embracing secrecy of the meeting.

this is making me cuckoo. obviously the subject of courait is le silence particulier. what else could it possibly be!! that's the least confusing thing about the sentence!

what is actually confusing is everything that happens after le silence particulier. fleuri is a past participle which i would think is acting as an adjective because there's no auxiliary. what's it modifying? silence? are we saying [le silence [particulier des comploteurs] [fleuri du pavillon pâle]]? and where is the pavillon pâle coming from? this is the first use of the word pavillon. the translator takes it as figurative language, which maybe it is, but i can't figure out what it's doing in the sentence because...

what the fuck is going on with multiple? if it's an adjective modifying pavillon, then shouldn't it (and pavillon!) be plural? like by definition?? the translator has clearly interpreted it this way by the inclusion of "many pale flags". however, i originally interpreted pavillon not as flag (flags have not been mentioned in the story at all so far) but as outbuilding, because on the previous page the pergola was described as having "murs aveugles" which the translator thought was odd because pergolas don't have walls, let alone windowless ones, so he thought maybe it was referring to an outbuilding. also, if multiple is somehow modifying pavillon despite the fact that they're both singular, everything up to and including multiple is a complete sentence. what is des questions and everything after it doing? that's a completely new noun phrase. what verb phrase is it part of?

at one point i was thinking, could multiple be a verb? but it would have to be a verb in the 3rd person singular present indicative (or i guess subjunctive), so it can't parallel courait. there are present indicative verbs in this sentence, but they're both in the subordinate clause after "des questions". the subject would either have to be le silence (which doesn't make sense because courait also has silence as the subject and is in the imparfait) or le pavillon, which doesn't make sense because there's an et in between pavillon and multiple.

i can't say the translation is incorrect because i don't understand the original sentence. but if i start from the translation and try to work backward, the biggest problem i run into isn't "many pale flags" (maybe le pavillon pâle et multiple could be a plural noun phrase stylistically?) but rather "fluttered". he's added a completely new main verb that doesn't exist in the original. and at first i was assuming that he was getting fluttered from fleuri somehow, but i can't make that make sense either semantically or syntactically which maybe is a skill issue, i don't know!!

if we try to line up the correspondences between original and translation by color:

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle et multiple des questions que l'on n'ose poser et qui attendent pour tomber le souffle du plus courageux.

Beneath the pergola, convolvulus-like, the peculiar silence of the plotters spread over everything and over the six invalids, and the many questions that no one dared utter, and which waited to be asked for the breath of the bravest amongst them, fluttered above them like as many pale flags.

it does seem like fluttered and fleuri have to be related somehow. maybe fleuri is actually supposed to be fleurit (most of the story is in the passé simple)...but if des questions is the subject, it would have to be fleurirent because questions is plural. and it still seems pretty weird not to have a conjuction in the french (he's added "and" in the translation). and where did the "above them" come from in "fluttered above them"? i am losing my mind. what am i missing.

[geodraws04]

Working so many villain aus be like :)

I always like the idea of making characters interact with their artists so I decided to take a break and make this somewhat comedic scenario with a couple of the designs I made (my Remnant!Makoto’s outfit based on the design from @thiscatdraws MLP despaired Makoto design!!) and showcasing their new personalities alongside @spittyfishy Remnant!Kaede and Shuichi :00

Since I’ve got Makoto and Serena’s designs all done I’ll probably post them at some point once I got a couple more characters done from their respective series (and Deku as well because I’m still workshopping his lol

[dandelion-stuff-and-fluff]

It's difficult to articulate the irrational anger I feel whenever I hear/see/read something described as [whatever]-coded.

Like it's probably age-related hormonal changes making me crabby, but I still want to take this phrasing out back, stash its moldy corpse in the dumpster, and set it all on fire.

[scalpelsister]

I am 🤏 this close to quitting my job but I've only had it for four months 😭

[chicken-scatch-drawing]

I hardly post on here anymore (i just forget to,,,), buuut I thought it might be fun to do one of these? :D?

Feel free to send in requests for any characters from the following fandoms along with a number!

Code Lyoko

Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun

Kagerou Project

The Amazing Digital Circus

Pokemon XY(Z)

Fire Emblem Awakening, Three Houses, and Echoes / Shadows of Valentia

The Dummy's Dummy

NieR Automata and NieR RepliCant

[catwouthats]

How I feel basically hyping myself up on here whenever I talk about my ocs because I never introduced the basic premise of my story

[that-one-scoundrel]

I find it so funny that Caleb's lounge wear has these bar codes on them as its designs like bro, you tryna get sold or what? TT TT return those shirts back where you got them, my boy TT TT

[perilegs]

ok ok as soon as i develop the ability to understand clear instructions i will have nøkk with both autopsy AND top surgery scars in my game and then it's over for me

[alarici]

the preposition that "Rod Ross was the most evil character in Death Note" keeps me up at night.

[sophiesophsofia]

My another idea for a show (I swear a God, this one is much better than some others!)

So the title of it is "Code Clash"

The plot : In the computer, some characters life thier lifes in their worlds (video games). Sudenttly, a virus (also called as The Dark Code) comes and destroys their worlds and steal some characters. The main 5 characters have to become baddies and learn to comarate with each other, so they can save their realms and their friends.

The main characters :

1.XYZ (Exwhyzee) - a charecter from a video game where you just create your OC's (similar to Gacha Club). They have unknown gender, unknown age and unknown powers. While travelling through video games, they transform themself, so they look like NPC character. In every episode they look compleattly different. They are pretty anxous, insicure about who they really are, but they are surely very brave and daring. And yes, through the show they will teach about their indenity.

2.Maghelia (or Sandra)- a superhero from an action game. She's the braviest and most loyal one. Has crush on her best friend Luna (who is the main villain in the game; yk, they don't know others real indenity)

3.Bombon - a fairy-cat from advanture fantasy game for kids. She's a friend of a princess of the Fairy Kingdom (that was steal by the dark code), which was a reason, Bombon decided to join the team. She's sweet, kind, calm, but often behaves too childish (her personalty will change through the show tho)

4.Anastasia - a hunted doll from a horror game (similar to Poppy Playtime and fnaf). She has 2 sisters that were victims of the dark code attack. She's arrogant, brutal and mean

5.Nuilly- a dragon-elve, that is from a fantasy game (similar to dnd) She has a gremlin personalty. (I made a post of a idea of her character, so you can check it out)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

pinning to the workshop corkboard: you've heard of winston "i'm cassandra" billions clairvoyance concepts for fun & profit, hear also of winston billions sphinx concepts (you must be This understanding of what he means to proceed)

[russwchallenger]

Damn, that was fast! Code 8 part 2 hit #1 on Netflix already and the first part is at #3!

[greyeyedmonster-18]

(i know everyones talking about the pathological people pleaser line but what about

i'm the best thing at this party)

[syppys-den]

WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE!?

I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot