French vocab exercise 003

Wow, these compositions are bleak, aren't they? This is what you get when all your words start with the Latin prefix of "a" or "ab". Go go Latin and Greek in Scientific Terminology! (U of T CLA 201 for those of you who are interested. Professor Traill is an awesome man.)

On utilise 15 nouveaux mots aujourd'hui.

-abhorrer: to loathe, to abhor

-abîmer: to spoil, to damage
abîme: chasm, abyss
s'abîmer la santé: to ruin one's health
s'abîmer dans (ses pensées, le désespoir): to be lost in thought, to be plunged in despair

-abjection: utter humiliation, vileness

-abjurer: to recant

-ablation: removal, ablation
ablette: bleak

-ablution: ablution

-abnégation: self-denial
avec abnégation: selflessly

-aboiement: bark, ranting, raving

-abolir: to abolish

-abominable: abominable

-abonder: to be plentiful
abondant: abundant

-abonner: to subscribe
abonné: subscriber

-aborder: to accost, to walk up to
abord: manner
abordable: reasonable, affordable
abordage: boarding

-aborigène: aboriginal

-abortif: abortive

Si le personnage Jackie Chiles était français:
"J'abhorre ce qu'on fait aujourd'hui dans ce tribunal! Mon client, un humble aborigène, est accusé de troubler l'ordre public! Il a été soumis à l'abjection! Il s'est abîmé dans le désespoir! C'est abominable que l'accusateur a abordé mon client, un sûr abonné du journal, dans un bibliothèque où il se délectait de l'abondance des livres! Mon client a été soumis à l'aboiement de l'accusateur, qui est atrocement libre! Il n'est pas accusé de troubler l'ordre public! Il n'affronte pas une période d'abnégation ablette pendant que mon client est au bord d'un abîme! L'ablation de mon client du domaine public montre que notre société a désespérément besoin d'une ablution. Nous devons abolir cette soi-disant justice, qui est difforme, abortive, prématurée, absurde! L'accusateur doit abjurer, renoncer et abroger! Nous devons punir le vrai criminel! Merci."

Translation - A speech of Jackie Chiles (from Seinfeld) in court:
"I abhor what we are doing today in this court! My client, a humble aboriginal man, has been accused of public disturbance! He has been put through utter humiliation! He has been thrown into the depths of despair! It is abominable that the accuser would accost my client, a faithful newspaper subscriber, in a library where he was reveling in the abundance of books! My client has been subjected to the raving of the accuser, who shockingly stands free! He has not been accused of public disturbance! He does not face a period of bleak self-denial while my client stands on the edge of an abyss! My client's removal from a public domain shows that our society is in desperate need of an ablution. We must abolish this so-called justice, which is malformed, abortive, premature, preposterous! The accuser must recant, abnegate and abrogate! We must punish the real criminal! Thank you."

This was really hard, because I had to make the writing as flamboyant as possible while using all these negative words I happen to be blessed with today. The thesaurus came in very handy and Josh helped me word the sentences properly so that it's as close as possible to the real thing. I bolded and italicized certain words so that you could get a sense of how the character talks. Yay, it's done! Whee!!!