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From: dcs2e@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (David Christopher Swanson)
Subject: Re: Queue Sarah Sarah
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kcivey@cpcug.org  writes:
> "Peggy O.Dolter" <peggyd@icon-stl.net> wrote:
> 
> >Torkel Franzen wrote:
> >>  
> >>   As Spanish, "que sera, sera" is ungrammatical.
> 
> >I believe that it is French. 
> 
> In French, isn't "que" pronounced /k@/ rather than /ke/
> (roughly, "kuh" rather than "kay")?  In Spanish, on the 
> other hand, "que" is /ke/ (as is "che" in Italian).
> 
> "Odd Spot: A Case of Knowing Too Little?" on the MacGuffin Web
> site (http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/fourth_page_c.html at
> the bottom of the page) says
> 
>     But what's odd about Doris Day's song is how it ever came to
>     be called 'Que Sera, Sera', a *French*-language title used
>     by John Michael Hayes's screenplay, when Day so clearly
>     gives it the *Italian* pronunciation: 'Che sar, sar'.
>     Moreover, the latter is just what you'd expect, because
>     Italian provides the traditional form of the expression.
>     (See, for example, lines 75-76 of Christopher Marlowe's 'Dr
>     Faustus', 1604.)


Hu-hem, may I feel less stupid now?  Or do I just have lots of
company?

DS

> 
> For further confusion, see any of several copies of early
> editions of Roget's thesaurus on the Web (for example,
> http://home.navisoft.com/entisoft/roget5.htm), which list 
> "che sara sara" but identify the phrase as French.
> 
> Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org>         Washington, DC
> Contributing Editor/Webmaster
> The Editorial Eye <http://www.eeicom.com/eye/>
> 
