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Sunday, July 30, 2006: Anomalies... *_*
I was just flipping through my English-French dictionary. And guess what?? Here's the entry for the word "alto" (English to French section):
alto [pronunciation marks] n (female) contralto m; (male) haute-contre f
(By the way, the dictionary I'm using is the Collins French School Dictionary & Grammar.)
Oh goodness... can't believe it!! (prepares to launch into a lesson)
French is a romance language with some nouns in it being masculine and some feminine. (Hey, it's an improvement from the time when all nouns were masculine.) But, the thing is, masculine nouns always go with the girls while feminine nouns always go with the guys! *guffaw* Very funny. Yes, even to me, it seems as if they're matchmaking - guy nouns to girls, girl nouns to guys... But this is one seriously big anomaly. Alors, j'étais un contralto en école primaire, hein? (So, I was a [masculine] alto in primary school, eh?) Very funny. I was born female, and I had all these male nouns 'married' to me already. It's one big joke. Like the trick question "Are you M or F?" Where's the trick? Go figure before I play it on anyone.
By the way, the word for bass is basse (feminine). Soprano is spelt the same way and can be used in both grammatical genders (hooray for me, but... poor Altos), and the word for tenor (spelt the same way but with an accent on top of the first e so that the spelling becomes ténor) is used in the masculine gender. The anomaly is with the A and the B, but not the S and the T.
And if you haven't noticed it before, SATB is an anagram of STAB.
Just tagged "PWN-er". She's 'it'. And here I am again, trying to make my blog run, which it can't and won't do. I hope she comes to read. And if she ever asks me why I changed her name, well... But seriously, I can't be shouting my allegiances out loud here, can I? Oh wait... I've already declared allegiance to Choral Singing. Brr... Blogosphere is a dangerous world.
I'm going to see if my junior's responded in any way to my response - to her blog post - on her tagboard. Au revoir... (hopefully this is understandable? If not, here's the translation: until we meet again.)
~Seraphine Chorister~ sang in The Butterfly Garden
[8:59 PM]
