Talk:La Mer (song)

message: While it's nice to have the original French lyrics, wouldn't also be good to have an English translation, as this is English-language Wikipedia and it would be nice to know what the lyrics mean?  And don't direct me to the English-language version of this song, because those lyrics are not a direct translation.  98.221.124.80 (talk) 10:32, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. And done. I'm not entirely sure about the accuracy of the translation I found, so if anyone disagrees please correct it. Using tables to force a 2 column format is a bit iffy, too, but I'm not sure how to do it properly in Wikipedia. Personally I think that the original lyrics are badly spaced, and should be written more like the song is sung. nagualdesign (talk) 23:30, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: English Translation

message: I already posted this question to the french-language page for this song (discussion page): Why is this song title "La Mer" and not "Le Mer"? "Mer" in French is masculine, isn't it? - mdcosta --216.58.61.147 03:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's feminine.  El mar in Spanish is masculine, if that's any consolation.Strobilomyces 17:41, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: If the French word 'Mer' came from Latin Mare, a neuter noun, shouldn't the song have an article along the lines of Le, rather than La?  Don't most French people consider Mer to be a masculine noun?
Is there a double entendre, or some kind of hidden significance to the choice of articles used with this noun?  198.177.27.27 (talk) 18:39, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: With reference to the first two sentences of the above, as the old saying goes "it takes one to know one". — 188.28.219.36 (talk) 04:11, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  La or Le? 

message: I came to this page, because I read on the page about the song "beyond the sea" (on wikipedia) that it has the tune from la mer, but is not a translation (ie la mer is about something else... but what?) Thanks, -- JasonWoof (talk) 06:58, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a poetic evocation of the sights and sounds of the sea and coast; the singer concludes that "the sea has beguiled my heart for life with a song of love" (loose translation!). --mervyn (talk) 14:11, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the song about? 

message: Does this song have any relation to the Debussy song of the same name, from another Frenchman 30 years before?
And for the redirects at the top, the NIN song is a cover, or at least inspired by the Debussy, at the very least it should be added as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.112.18.193 (talk) 11:08, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Debussey 

message: Should mention be made of the use of this song on the Stilgoe and Skellern album A Quiet Night Out?  One of them (I think Stilgoe, who probably wrote the lyrics) sang a comic song lamenting the opening of the Channel Tunnel, whilst the other sang this song in counterpoint to it. — 188.28.219.36 (talk) 04:07, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stilgoe and Skellern reference? 

message: The disambiguation page states that Trenet published the song in 1939.  That seems to contradict the text of *this* page, which claims Trenet wrote the lyrics in 1943, and was aided by Chauliac for the tune.
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it also appears in tailor tinker soldier spy!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.166.27.113 (talk) 08:17, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Written in 1943 but published in 1939? 

message: Article has been tagged for needing sources since 2008. Feel free to reinsert the below material with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 15:17, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your work on improving the article and for putting in the in-use template while you were working on it. I'm guessing you were done at this point; if not, feel free to re-insert information I removed (with sources) as desired. Thanks again. DonIago (talk) 21:33, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You guessed wrong, in particular since the posting above suggests clearly suggests otherwise.--Kmhkmh (talk) 05:35, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced material

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