Cacciaguida

Defending the 12th century since the 14th; blogging since the 21st.

Catholicism, Conservatism, the Middle Ages, Opera, and Historical and Literary Objets d'Art blogged by a suburban dad who teaches law and writes stuff.


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Who was Cacciaguida? See Dante's PARADISO, Cantos XV, XVI, & XVII.


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Sunday, June 22, 2008
 
Keeping up with French slang: We watched Donnie Darko the other night (two thumbs up -- don't think I'll join the cult, but I definitely liked the movie); just now I came across the following remark by a French Donnie fan:
C le meilleur film au monde...A voir ABSOLUEMENT!!!
(meilleur en anglais; la traduction francaise souille vraiement)
WHY DO YOU WEIR THAT STUPID MEN SUIT?!?
Souiller, eh?

Je souille
Tu souilles
Il/elle souille

Nous souillons
Vous souillez (never hurts to be polite)
Ils/elles souillent

(I assume "c" is French net-speak for "c'est". And I think the e's in absolument and vraiment are just mistakes; people make typos when they write fast, right?)