Gimme a girl and hold the dog

I’ve just been reading a fantastic selection (La fiera corrupia, ed JM Rexach) of ballads and the like printed by Coromines of Lleida/Lerida in the mid-nineteenth century. As well as classics like The Beast of Jerusalem, sundry executions, famines, hail storms, and the obligatory poop-piece, it includes a very cute lovesong by F(r)ederico Logroño, First Corporal in the 3rd Company of Engineers. Soldier Logroño talks straight and stays well clear of the excessively mammiferous clichés of contemporary verse:

The translation might be improved if I knew what horomático meant–my best guess is that we have here an out of control item taking advantage of an r/l swap and deriving from the Greek prefix holo-:

The lady’s horomatic smelliness fazed one somewhat, so no dismay was experienced when the next verse on first reading seemed to praise her for her sparkle, wisdom, discretion, and the fact that she didn’t own a dog:

OK, it’s pero not perro: she’s the lady without a but, which is also kind of sweet.

Related posts

• anunci
• Bcn.es -> Bcn.cat
• the world in a sentence, part ii
• Elderly Irishman rubbing his leg with seaweed
• Barcepundit

Comments

1. kalebeul » Campaign to get people to dance in Catalan sez:
   29 June 2005 at 5:31 PM

   [...] o pas es tan estret Merda y queda per las voras. Source: La fiera corrupia, ed JM Rexach; previous post

   [...]

2. » Lo vostre cul cuan cagau - Polifônica Industrial sez:
   10 March 2006 at 9:18 PM

   [...] “Catalunya” de Composició Coral. (Más sobre La fiera corrupia (Lleida, s19) aquí)

   You [...]

Feeds: RSS2 · Atom

Trackback link.

Tell me if the spam dragon gives you a hard time. Log in if you want to be really foul.