Seems I could have been clearer that the point of this example was that "Il non mi piace passo de tutto" is French with Italian readings rather than Italian translated from French. Otherwise I too believe it is "crazy", "bizarre", and "makes no sense", and I'm glad it looks that way to other people, at least when they see it transposed into a Western European context. As a rule, vernacular Chinese character readings were selected based on cognation without respect for semantic or syntactic changes, and so readings do not respect such changes.
I actually softened the example a bit because in this analogy French should have Latin spelling. To my best guess, this is what French with Latin orthography would look like, followed by French and Italian readings in French based on the real-world orthographies:
I will say more about Jorge's other points in due time, but I wanted to make sure it was clear what I was trying to illustrate since it garnered responses from other people.
I actually softened the example a bit because in this analogy French should have Latin spelling. To my best guess, this is what French with Latin orthography would look like, followed by French and Italian readings in French based on the real-world orthographies:
Quote:(Notes: "illi" is strictly Vulgar, but I am not researching a more faithful Classical orthography for this illustrations; I may not have all the declensions right, but I'm reasonably sure "totus" is correct as "tout" is not descended from the ablative.)
- French, on the page: Illi non me placet passum de totus.
- French, from the mouth of a French speaker: Il ne me plait pas de tout
- French, from the mouth of an Italian speaker: Il non mi piace passo de tutto
I will say more about Jorge's other points in due time, but I wanted to make sure it was clear what I was trying to illustrate since it garnered responses from other people.