"cross-language homophonic poetry" -- or something

[Carole Crompton]

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People used to trick others with these at parties when I was young. There
was one in "French" that went something like "pas dela rhon canut"???? but
not speaking/reading French I'm sure that's not quite right. Same for the
Latin:

Civili der dago
Fortibus est en ero
Novili demis trux
Vadis indim
Cosin dux

I'd love to have more of these so please post whatever to the list!!!
Thanks, CMC
(not a linguist, just a user)










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> On another list, someone asked:
>>There's been a conversation on our family list about _Mots
>>D'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The D'Antin Manuscript_, by Luis
>>D'Antin Van Rooten ... who produces poems that look like French
>>but sound like English (that is, when read aloud they make sense
>>as English sounds).
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>>What is that form, joke, or whatever it is called?  I know of it
>>because Jonathan Swift did it with Latin and English, but at the
>>moment I can't even find any of those jeux in my library or on
>>line (much less in my memory), and my hope (nay, expectation) is
>>that someone on this learned list has the noun at the tip of her
>>tongue, or fingers.
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> I will post the answer back to the inquirer, crediting my source.
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> Joel
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