XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english, soc.culture.french   
   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 16/06/2024 à 08:44, HenHanna a écrit :   
   > On 6/16/2024 12:08 AM, Julien ÉLIE wrote:   
   >> Hi HenHanna,   
   >> [...]   
   >>>>> Et perdras   
   >>>>> L’embonpoint.   
   >>>>> Dieu te doint   
   >>>>> Santé bonne,   
   >>>>> Ma mignonne.   
   >   
   > hello...  great to hear from you...   
   > (this proves that...) Cross-posting is sometimes good or great.   
   >   
   > Bard.Google.com  seems to agree (with my hunch) that   
   >   
   >          >>>   Yes, your sentence "Dieu te doint Santé bonne" uses   
   >                the informal "tu" pronoun ("te") when addressing   
   God.   
   >   
   > but now i'm totally unsure about my hunch.   
      
   I hesitate to disagree with a Bard, but IMHO the 'te' here addresses the   
   cute one who is the subject and recipient of the poem. There is no   
   direct address to God.   
      
      Dieu te donne santé bonne, ma mignonne.   
      God give you good health, my cute one.   
      
   (I suppose the last line counts as a /pious hope/.)   
      
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