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  • hedgehog

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    I have just put "chevaliers" in the google translator under French (in spite of your earlier telling us that it wasn't French) and guess what .... ?

    It said "chevaliers"!
    Language is such a difficult thing. No I meant that that part of the quiz didn't have a French answer. The answer there was, as mercia offered Cavalieri.

    Anna has come up with Campion. Now for the stubborn (pig-headed) one, the accomplice and the slipper!

    oh Ok, the slipper had an accident with a bicycle

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26536

      Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
      OOOOOH just saw this! Campion is correct!!!! So that leaves the pig-headed (stubborn) one and the accomplice!
      Yet again Anna flushes the system!!

      Though it seems as if that should be my department....



      But I digest... err... digress....

      I'm too easily distracted for AA
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • hedgehog

        Exactly, application caliban, application!

        (but my goodness, I didn't even think that syrup of figs existed! Well now....hmm )

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Chausson [slipper] famously died after a bicycle accident

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            so we need a composer whose name (beginning with C) translates as stubborn

            and a composer whose name (beginning with C) translates as accomplice

            or not .......... as the case may be .........

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            • Anna

              Cavalieri, Campion - thus we have so far (I did like mercia's Campion the Wonder Horse) and then, possibly Chausson. Is there charcuterie involved re the pigs head, perhaps some brawn or chipolatas?
              BUT, I have no idea know of what we are looking for!
              All great fun though, as France once again seem set to be slaughtered! Who could ask for more on a gloomy Saturday afternoon!

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              • hedgehog

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Cavalieri, Campion - thus we have so far (I did like mercia's Campion the Wonder Horse) and then, possibly Chausson. Is there charcuterie involved re the pigs head, perhaps some brawn or chipolatas?
                BUT, I have no idea know of what we are looking for!
                All great fun though, as France once again seem set to be slaughtered! Who could ask for more on a gloomy Saturday afternoon!
                Chausson is the slipper! No charcuterie is not involved - language wize - more chorizo!

                Oh mercia - sorry yes

                so we need a composer whose name (beginning with C) translates as stubborn

                and a composer whose name (beginning with C) translates as accomplice

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                • Resurrection Man

                  compere?

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26536

                    I'm Confused....

                    Are we not therefore looking for a single C word or name (or at least versions in various languages of a single name) ... but just a collection of five different C names?

                    That's a rather different game from the AA model, no?
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      so Campion is English, Cavalieri is Italian, Chausson is French

                      we need the Spanish for pig-headed/stubborn or accomplice

                      Spanish for obstinate seems to be obstinado
                      Italian for obstinate seems to be ostinado
                      I've forgotten which language we're allowed to have twice

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                      • hedgehog

                        Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                        compere?

                        Compère (ahem )

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                          Compère
                          could someone translate that for me so that I know what's left

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                          • Resurrection Man

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            so Campion is English, Cavalieri is Italian, Chausson is French

                            we need the Spanish for pig-headed/stubborn or accomplice

                            Spanish for obstinate seems to be obstinado
                            Italian for obstinate seems to be ostinado
                            I've forgotten which language we're allowed to have twice
                            It's French and Spanish, I believe. Compère is the second French composer. But according to Google it translates into Compère in English! Which would leave our Spaniard as the stubborn one (where's that Thesaurus)...and as I am typing this probably someone has come up with it!

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                            • Resurrection Man

                              Got it...Cabezon.

                              Blimey..I think I'd rather do ten rounds with Mike Tyson!

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                              • hedgehog

                                Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                                It's French and Spanish, I believe. Compère is the second French composer. But according to Google it translates into Compère in English! Which would leave our Spaniard as the stubborn one (where's that Thesaurus)...and as I am typing this probably someone has come up with it!
                                Well not on my Google it doesn't! Compère is "the accomplice" so now to the pig -headed one ( head = cabeza )

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