The sound of Romance

[Vesuvian Sky]

Been thinking of making these my signature since it refers to one of my most cherished Caesars. Of course it is in Latin, the mother tongue of Romance:

"Sis felicior Augusto, melior Traiano"

[MM81]

I'll try to translate it in english, just to see if I got it or not... No google translator used, of course
avive el seso y despierte
Sex lives and despairs (not sure about this)
contemplando
cómo se pasa la vida,
cómo se viene la muerte
Contemplating how life goes by, how death comes
tan callando,
don't know what the verb callar means
cuán presto se va el placer,
cómo, después de acordado,
da dolor;
how soon pleasure goes, how, after (don't understand "de acordado") from pain

cómo, a nuestro parecer,
cualquiera tiempo pasado
fue mejor.

how, as it seems to us,
some time past
was better.
.......
That's my interpretation: some verbs were unintelligible, many others perfectly understandable.

[Jerreiche]

I'll try to translate it in english, just to see if I got it or not... No google translator used, of course
avive el seso y despierte

flare up the brain and awake it

contemplando
cómo se pasa la vida,
cómo se viene la muerte
Contemplating how life goes by, how death comes (nice translate_


tan callando,

so silently


cuán presto se va el placer,
cómo, después de acordado,
da dolor;
how soon the pleasure goes away , how, once remembered, produces pain

cómo, a nuestro parecer,
cualquiera tiempo pasado
fue mejor.

how, as it seems to us,
any time past
was better.
.......
That's my interpretation: some verbs were unintelligible, many others perfectly understandable.

have corrected the bits and bobs and false friends. Generally a good translation

Although you know... Traduttore traditore

[MM81]

No, non ho usato il traduttore
False friends are real bastards...

[Comte Arnau]

A poem in mine:

Em plau, d’atzar, d’errar per les muralles
Del temps antic i, a l’acost de la fosca,
Sota un llorer i al peu de la font tosca,
De remembrar, cellut, setge i batalles.

De matí em plau, amb fèrries tenalles
I claus de tub, cercar la peça llosca
A l’embragat, o al coixinet que embosca
L’eix, i engegar per l’asfalt sense falles.

I enfilar colls, seguir per valls ombroses,
Vèncer, rabent, els guals. Oh món novell!
Em plau, també, l’ombra suau d’un tell,

L’antic museu, les madones borroses,
I el pintar extrem d’avui! Càndid rampell:
M’exalta el nou i m’enamora el vell.

[MM81]

^Catalan is quite understandable to me.
These are the words I don't understand:

d’atzar,
llorer
peça
L’eix,
borroses,

[Peyrol]

Merged discussions.

[Damião de Góis]

A song:

Há uma voz de sempre,
Que chama por mim.
Para que eu lembre,
Que a noite tem fim.

Ainda procuro,
Por quem não esqueci.
Em nome de um sonho,
Em nome de ti.

Procuro à noite,
Um sinal de ti.
Espero à noite,
Por quem não esqueci.

Eu peço à noite,
Um sinal de ti.
Quem eu não esqueci...

Por sinais perdidos,
Espero em vão.
Por tempos antigos,
Por uma canção.

Ainda procuro,
Por quem não esqueci.
Por quem já não volta,
Por quem eu perdi.

[carefree]

Most Romance languages are easy to learn and comprehend but Italian and French are the most beautiful of all in my opinion.

[Comte Arnau]

^Catalan is quite understandable to me.
These are the words I don't understand:

d’atzar,
llorer
peça
L’eix,
borroses,

llorer = lauro, peça = pezzo, eix = asse

atzar and borroses are Iberian words, with equivalents in Spanish and Portuguese. They mean chance and blurry.

Interesting, though. I rather thought that it'd be words like llosca, gual or rampell those difficult to understand.

Catalan is quite in the middle, lexically speaking, so much of it can be usually understandable to Italians, French and West Iberians.

(Looking like a variety from Italy)
La dona encara no menja sense un amic ni dorm mai sota la finestra perquè no vol escoltar com parlen tota la matinada.

(Looking like a variety from France)
Hom oblida sovint la joia d'altres temps, car no la trova gaire darrerament.

(Looking like a variety from West Iberia)
Calla, deixa de buscar i apaga la foguera; si no, es cansaran de tu i et mataran.