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The language nerd's adventures in Auvergnat
I'm not quite sure what my goal was in checking out this Pocket Auvergnat phrasebook, but it dos have some interesting information on the region. For example, Mentre tres annadas terriblas, la "Bèstia" devoriguèt dròlles e dròllas dins lo caire de Saug means, for all you Pacte des loups fans, "For three terrible years, the Gévaudan Beast devoured boys and girls in the area of Saugue."
I have also learned that lai a mai de vint vialas d'aigas en Auvèrnhe and the ever useful Podria 'nar gitar las vachas ame vosautres?
These are all lovely phrases, but I'm not sure that I'd find anyone to use them on, even if I could handle the prononciation. Vichy, although now in the Auvergne political region, is far enough north that it was originally inside the former region of Bourbonnais rather than the traditional Auvergne boundary. It may be possible to scrape up an old guy playing pétanque in southern Auvergne who can still speak a bit and there's an immersion school in Aurillac, I believe, but a vichyssois on the street would probably run away if I asked them Parlatz auvernhat?
srah - Friday, 1 November 2002 - 7:08 AM
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