Brit passports of burgundy hue,/
Post-Brexit, will turn a dark blue,/
A major advance/
For workers in France,/
Who’ll make them (inside the EU).///
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43489462
Note: for a month or two now, Twitter user Guillaume Cingal has been translating many of my limericks into French – but this is the first one that has been translated into Portuguese as well, courtesy of Anna Fagundes Martino*! Here they are:
Les passeports british, aujourd'hui lie-de-vin,
Seront bientôt d'un bleu marine bien chauvin :
Une aubaine, ma foi,
Pour le peuple gaulois
Qui va les fabriquer… dans l'U.E., c'est divin ! https://t.co/QCvHNFFcjd— Guillaume Cingal (@GuillaumeCingal) March 22, 2018
Os passaportes britânicos, de um belo tom de vinho
Pós-Brexit, acredite se quiser, vão ficar azuizinhos
Uma pátria que avança!
Mas a pátria é a França
porque os passaportes serão feitos no país vizinho!(a homage in Portuguese to your great limerick – I swear it rhymes)
— Anna Martino (@annadixit) March 22, 2018
And now in Italian too, thanks to Esa Aldegheri:
aaaaand in Italian:
Dopo la Brexit in Gran Bretagna c'e' chi si lamentera'
del passaporto che, da bordeux, blu scuro diventera'.
Ma perche' lagnarsi? C'e' da rallegrarsi:
con l'UE il business andra' a rinforzarsi:
la Francia li fabbrichera'.Prego!
— Dr Esa Aldegheri 🧡 migration is life (@aldeghesa) March 22, 2018
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