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Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France

From Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid>
Newsgroups sci.lang, alt.usage.english, soc.culture.france, soc.culture.french
Subject Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France
Date 2024-06-16 09:03 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <v4m68g$3ut98$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Le 16/06/2024 à 08:44, HenHanna a écrit :
> On 6/16/2024 12:08 AM, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
>> Hi HenHanna,
>> [...]
>>>>> Et perdras
>>>>> L’embonpoint.
>>>>> Dieu te doint
>>>>> Santé bonne,
>>>>> Ma mignonne.
> 
> hello...  great to hear from you...
> (this proves that...) Cross-posting is sometimes good or great.
> 
> Bard.Google.com  seems to agree (with my hunch) that
> 
>          >>>   Yes, your sentence "Dieu te doint Santé bonne" uses
>                the informal "tu" pronoun ("te") when addressing God.
> 
> but now i'm totally unsure about my hunch.

I hesitate to disagree with a Bard, but IMHO the 'te' here addresses the 
cute one who is the subject and recipient of the poem. There is no 
direct address to God.

   Dieu te donne santé bonne, ma mignonne.
   God give you good health, my cute one.

(I suppose the last line counts as a /pious hope/.)

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[embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-05-07 16:33 -0700
  Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France bebercito@aol.com (Bebercito) - 2024-05-08 15:49 +0000
    Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2024-05-08 19:32 +0000
    Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2024-05-09 06:07 +0100
      Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2024-05-09 10:55 +0200
  Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2024-05-10 19:19 +0000
    Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France bebercito@aol.com (Bebercito) - 2024-05-11 05:25 +0000
      Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2024-05-11 07:32 +0000
        Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-06-15 17:42 -0700
          Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2024-06-16 11:29 +1000
            Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2024-06-16 03:24 +0000
              Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2024-06-16 05:07 +0000
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2024-06-16 15:28 +1000
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> - 2024-06-16 09:08 +0200
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-06-16 00:44 -0700
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2024-06-16 09:03 +0100
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2024-06-16 19:41 +1000
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-06-16 19:26 +0100
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-10-27 11:43 +0000
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2024-10-27 19:53 +0100
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2024-10-28 12:43 +1100
                Re: [embonpoint] was once a completely positive term in France Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-10-28 18:47 +0000

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