But back to German .... that book up there is one of a whole series of books featuring "Le Prince du Motordu" ... a French Prince ( obviously) who mangles up all his words to comic effect. As you can see up there, he's wearing a chateau ( castle) on his head instead of a chapeau ( hat). He has a flock of "boutons" ( buttons) in his fields instead of "moutons" (sheep) .... and his flag (drapeau) is actually a toad (crapaud) and down below we see him in his " Salle-a-danger" which should really be a salle-a-manger ( dining room). It's full of alligators, trap-doors, vultures, snakes, hole in the floor, rotten chairs etc. Smashing.
The very name " Motordu" means "twisted word" .. "mot tordu" ... neat eh !
It's great fun spotting them all as you read through the books, and as you read them several times over you spot ones that you missed before. Of course, they're very educational as well... a perfect mixture.
There's certainly loads of possible confusable words and phrases in German, so that's not a problem. I used quite a few in that post full of made-up bible misprints ... Opfer/Töpfer, Traube/Taube, Kipper/Kippe, Raum/Traum, Durst/Wirst, Glucke/Gurke, Hagel/Nagel , Keil/Beil, Kamel/ Kanal, Busch/Bus .... it's a rich field we can plough.
So ... maybe some of you out there know of some books that work on the same idea... I do hope so anyway. Then you could tell me about them, either as a comment or to my lovely email address [email protected]
But right now, it's music from Sophie Hunger ... Walzer für Niemand ...
Hand unter's Kinn Niemand isst hungrig mein Frühstücksmenü
Niemand kommt immer zu früh
Niemand, ich habe Geschenke für dich
Was wär ich geworden,
gäb es dich nicht Meine gesammelten Werke -
bitte sehr Alles gehört dir Niemand,
niemand kennt mich wie du Unbedingt,
ich geb alles zu Keine Enttäuschung,
kein einziges Mal Aber dir ist eh alles egal
Niemand, siehst du's, ich wachse nicht mehr
Meine Hände sind Füße,Niemand,
schau her Bald bin ich nichts und das,
was dann bleibt Ist deine Wenigkeit Niemand,
was, was willst du?
Immer bist du hier Niemand, was,
was willst du?
Von mir? Von mir? Von mir?