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On 2/26/2013 6:47 PM, Simon Spero
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Hassan Aït-Kaci <hassanaitkaci@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I write poetry (mostly in French but some in English)
[...]
French is particularly
adequate for this sort of word play because (contrary to
English, for example) it is a stressless language (i.e., all
syllables are pronounced with equal stress).
French is not really stressless, but stress is not
particularly significant at the individual word level. It is
more significant at the phrase level, and is of great
pragmatic importance.
Hmmm ... This makes me feel like Monsieur Jourdain in Molière's "Le
Bourgeois Gentilhomme" when he found out that he had spoken prose
all his life without knowing it! :-D
I agree that stress at the conversational level is used in French
(and any other language) to carry mood and situations - e.g.,
urgency, authority, deference, plea, etc., ... (hence I'd agree with
your "pragmatic" epithet). Indeed, one may pronounce: "Je n'en ai
rien à faire" using several distinct stress patterns depending on
mood. But the phrase is ideally prononced without any stress. Thus,
one could not make any difference between "contre nous de la
tyrannie!" and "Comte, renoue, de là tire Annie!" ... ;-)
Below is a sample of what this "stressless" property of French may
provide in termes of double/hidden meanings:
AVEU CLÉMENT CLAIR SE MET
Ces divers tissements sont des leurres que les mots habitent
Et le son de voir ses pensées dépensées comme on s’acquitte
D’image innée imaginaire endroit où des dalles à l’envers
Contre toute attente se créent tant de divers chemins en vers
On entre dans ce ventre comme un antre sans entrée ni sortie
Et ce qu’on y lit et qu’on prend a l’effet de piqures d’orties
Il faut savoir où poser ses pieds nus calvaire de bris de verre
Mais quand on les relie on y voit des sens qu’on y avait vus guère
L’essence de ce quiet discours s’écrie soudain dans tous les sens
C’est bien sûr réaliste mais peut être démence si lu sans connivence
. . .
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-hak
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