Babel on

For this spring fever interlude (courtesy of Robert the LLama Butcher), take the lyrics to a song, and translate it in Alta Vista Babel Fish from English to German, then German to French, then French to English. Think of it as a game of telephone gone very, very wrong:

Why you establish me with the butter flower,
the baby made precisely
confuse me in the passage and me around
and then most badly all
it that you never name, baby,
if it to say that to become to him,
I love you still me requires you more
however than darlin' you know all the world,
than I have as of the beginning,
therefore me butter flower, made not break my heart to establish

Here's the original. All liability for intentional infliction of earwormial distress is hereby disclaimed.

Newly blooming: Allium moly (mountain bells); Nepeta faassenii (catmint); Clematis integrifolia (solitary clematis); Petunia x violacea 'Laura Bush'; Salvia x sylvestris 'Blue Hill'.

Comments

[Stefanie]

Thanks for the laugh! :)

[Kathy]

Love that ranunculus! Is it hardy?

[Chan S.]

Stefanie, you're welcome!

Kathy, I got the ranunculus from a farmstand-style garden nursery last summer, and it appears to have sailed through the winter with no problem. I have heard that it sows itself around generously--let me know if you want some seeds.