williwam01

[solid geode]

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[sacred hazel]

good taste first of all

i understand it as from

[upper grove]

oh u deleted it but i was abt to piggyback off that-

[sacred hazel]

i mean it could be of as in from

but not like, benediction of god as in towards god, for god

just saying it's from makes it simpler

[upper grove]

I wanted to remark that a lot of times in french when you have « x de y » in english you'd just have « y's x » that's what i notice at least

Like here you could directly say "god's blessing"

Which you would naturally just interpret as a blessing that god gives (and not receives, so not towards god as nopia you pointed out)

[sacred hazel]

I have the music sheey funnily enough

With the english translation

One sec

[upper grove]

Ohh from the excerpt ?

I thought it was victor hugo😭

[floral pendant]

hey thanks for the replys btw!

i quite like god's blessing as a translation

but it does give a different feel to "blessing from god"

[upper grove]

You're welcome!
You can see a similar thing with for example billet d'avion = ticket of plane = plane ticket
xp

[floral pendant]

yeah. didnt think about it straight away

[sacred hazel]

So it is "of"

But it's of as in fancy from, not as towards/for

[floral pendant]

interesting there is no "la"

i suppose it was written in the 1800s. so french probably sounded differently like english did

[sacred hazel]

yeah go find someone starting a sentence with whence nowadays

[upper grove]

Oh is this classical music ?

[floral pendant]

yess

[sacred hazel]

although could be current french

[upper grove]

the first thing from google is liszt

[sacred hazel]

*the title

[floral pendant]

its the title of a piece of music

[upper grove]

Epicc

[sacred hazel]

It's the name of a poem that was transcribred into music

The poem is by Lamartine

[upper grove]

Ohh mk

Lamartine je ne le connais pas

[sacred hazel]

Tu devrais !

Politicien et poète

[floral pendant]

in french isnt it common to say "la benediction". when in english we might translate it without the "the"

[sacred hazel]

I think

[floral pendant]

j'aime la musique mais j'ai jamais lis les poemes

[upper grove]

I think in any case that happens a lot

La nature
But in english it's just nature

[sacred hazel]

this might sound stupid but

in french it's fancy to not say it

in English it's fancy to say it

[upper grove]

Haha nice

[sacred hazel]

and that's it

[floral pendant]

funny

makes sense though

[upper grove]

Yea

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