{"id":67369,"date":"2024-12-17T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67369"},"modified":"2024-12-17T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:58:23","slug":"vire-langue-ou-celebration-des-homophones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67369","title":{"rendered":"Vire-langue ou c\u00e9l\u00e9bration des homophones?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From jeremy_jeyy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/KrNWFWWsKAs?si=UyaQaem2TTfUdlZp<\/p>\n


\nThe audio is heavily weighted towards high frequencies, which emphasizes the many \/s\/ sounds and (along with the rapid unmodulated performance) makes the actual textual content hard to hear:<\/p>\n

Si ces six saucissons-ci sont six sous, ces six saucissons-ci sont sans souci.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

A link to (the Instagram version of) this clip was sent to me under the heading \"French tongue-twister\" (in French, vire-langue<\/em> = \"turn-tongue\"), but my non-native-speaker impression is that the sentence \"Si ces six saucissons-ci sont six sous, ces six saucissons-ci sont sans souci\" is not especially hard to say correctly.<\/p>\n

Compare\u00a0 English \"She sells seashells by the sea shore\", which mixes \/s\/ and \/\u0283\/ in a way that tends to confuse our brain's execution of the utterance plan. Or the French analogue, \"Un chasseur sachant chasser doit savoir chasser sans son chien\".<\/p>\n

And the rest of jeremy_jeyy's YouTube collection<\/a>\u00a0 seems also to be mostly about the celebration of (full or partial) homophones, gleefully pronounced, to the stupefaction of his other self — e.g. this example:<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/7fukEm9G708<\/p>\n

An adjacent oddity — Google Translate knows that French vire-langue<\/em> is English \"tongue twister\":<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

But in the other direction, it gives us a definition rather than an equivalent word:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Update —<\/strong> there are at least two other performances of related \"six saucissons-ci\" passages on YouTube, here<\/a> and here<\/a>. FWIW, they're explicitly labelled as \"tongue twister\" and \"virelangue\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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