#1
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:12pm
Anybody know the translation of the French stuff Sherie sings in this song?
THX!
THX!
DRS Question-Sherie's song, Here I Am.......
#2
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:16pm
#3
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:20pm
Lord-child, if I could spell the French lyrics I WOULD Google it!! LOL!
#4
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:22pm
The only French lyrics I remember are "je suis ici," which means "I am here." Isn't the spelling on the cast recording's insert?
#5
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:23pm
Perhaps you should buy the Cd - with lyrics...
Je n'sais quoi (I don't know what)
Je suis ici - I am here
What else does she say in French?
Je n'sais quoi (I don't know what)
Je suis ici - I am here
What else does she say in French?
#6
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:25pm
She says "the way they say 'la vie' is French!" which is actually a very clever play on words on the classic French phrase, "c'est la vie" pronounced the same way. "C'est la vie" means something to the extent of "That's life".
Oh and, "I'm sorry if I seem jejeune (sp?)/I promise I'll find my marbles soon!"
Oh and, "I'm sorry if I seem jejeune (sp?)/I promise I'll find my marbles soon!"
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Updated On: 7/14/05 at 06:25 PM
#7
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:26pm
zut alors...means like darn okay....its not exact translations with english
*Kristen*
#8
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:26pm
Here. Now go translate. Why do people use message boards to do research they are too lazy to do themselves?
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/d/dirtyrottenscoundrelslyrics/hereiamlyrics.html
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/d/dirtyrottenscoundrelslyrics/hereiamlyrics.html
Updated On: 7/14/05 at 06:26 PM
#9
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:31pm
actually I think that's all of them.
also:
excuse me if I seem too "jeune" = "young"
also:
excuse me if I seem too "jeune" = "young"
#10
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:49pm
Thanks everybody for your help...I just saw the show yesterday and loved that song! I haven't had a chance to get the CD (with lyrics) yet.
BobbyBubby-When I searched online I couldn't find the lyrics- which is why I asked the question on the board in the 1st place...not because I'm just "too lazy" to find out on my own.
Next time you're that irritated, baby, don't respond.
BobbyBubby-When I searched online I couldn't find the lyrics- which is why I asked the question on the board in the 1st place...not because I'm just "too lazy" to find out on my own.
Next time you're that irritated, baby, don't respond.
#11
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:50pm
Just to let you know I typed in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Lyrics in google and it's the first thing listed. :)
#12
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:50pm
uh oh, bad move.
#13
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:51pm
She says a lot of French, actually. I submitted to stlyrics.com waayyyy long ago so it's all there.
#14
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:55pm
Hey Thenardier is that the girl from I Want to Be a Hilton?
#15
Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:56pm
#16
Posted: 7/14/05 at 7:31pm
"Je n'sais quoi" means something along the lines of "special quality", if I'm not msitaken.
#17
Posted: 7/14/05 at 7:40pm
it literally means "i don't know what"....which you might use to allude to a "special quality"
#18
Posted: 7/14/05 at 7:54pm
She says "excuse me if I seem jejeune" not "too jeune" as previously stated...
I'm looking in the cd booklet.
Having taken four years of french, I still don't know what jejeune is though! lol I know that jeune is young..and Je is I...but jejeune as one word??
I'm looking in the cd booklet.
Having taken four years of french, I still don't know what jejeune is though! lol I know that jeune is young..and Je is I...but jejeune as one word??
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#19
Posted: 7/14/05 at 8:32pm
I think the running joke in the song is that she rarely pronounces the French correctly -- "je ne sais quoi" and "je suis ici" is kind of Americanized, so that may be why "jejeune" isn't really a word :)
#20
Posted: 7/14/05 at 9:28pm
She doesn't pronounce "veni vidi vici" correctly either - I love that little character detail. 
~Jessica
~Jessica
"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure."
~Roger Bart
#21
Posted: 7/14/05 at 11:46pm
That's what I thought at first..but Je na sais quoi sounds the way a fluent speaker would say it
Je'n sais quoi (Juhn say quaw) I was taught that fluent speakers combine the Je's with 'nes and stuff...but I could be wrong --my HS sucked :)
and I agree about the jejuene and veni vidi vici..that's way off! :)
Je'n sais quoi (Juhn say quaw) I was taught that fluent speakers combine the Je's with 'nes and stuff...but I could be wrong --my HS sucked :)
and I agree about the jejuene and veni vidi vici..that's way off! :)
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#22
Posted: 7/14/05 at 11:50pm
Je n'sais quoi is how she says it, and she says it right-ish...I mean, no French accent, but she gets the sounds pretty right.
It's usually used (in English) as...you have that certain, je ne sais quoi....something I can't even name.
It's usually used (in English) as...you have that certain, je ne sais quoi....something I can't even name.
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