Foreign Language Fun Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Foreign Language Fun



For ‘swallow', French has two words:
‘gorgée', and ‘hirondelle' (the bird) .
English, for both, has one.
Gorgées? Birds?
Learning English is curious fun.

For ‘touche', English has two words:
‘touch' and (piano and typewriter)‘key'.
French for both has one.
Touches? Keys?
Learning French is curious fun.

Near ‘peloton', a slang word I saw:
‘peloter', ‘to grope', ‘to touch up'.
You could use
‘to key' for ‘to paw'.

Thursday, May 31, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: language,slang
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
1.6.2018
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Robert Murray Smith 31 May 2018

Douglas, my friend all languages are foreign to each other. Although, some words are incorporated to show that they are not so foreign after all.

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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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