#spoken old french reminds me more of elizabithean english moreso than actual old english
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So the French lyrics to the smurfs' little ditty in the movie came STRAIGHT from the comics. Well at least I can kinda parse what the small set of lyrics were now lol.
#the smurfs#johan et pirlouit#johan and peewit#the smurfs and the magic flute#bande dessinée#peyo#peyo did good with the songwriting#even writing peewit's little victory song from the joust in old french#did he read old french writings?#i'm kinda curious about that#spoken old french reminds me more of elizabithean english moreso than actual old english#old english has waaaaay less in common with modern english after all#the old french at least resembles what would later become modern french to some extents#slightly different spellings and structure aside#tho i'm curious as to how intelligible old french or middle french is to modern french speakers#and to what extent
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