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Where'd everyone go?; Seriously!
Topic Started: Feb 19 2012, 01:05 AM (1,902 Views)
towr
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Haha, coming from an English speaker that's hilarious. :lol:
I don't think there's any language with a greater disconnect between spelling and pronunciation than English.

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Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;

Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;

One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.

Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.

Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.

Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.

We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.

Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.

Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.

Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.

Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.


Pronunciation-think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough-
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
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TheDeepDark
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I know this is only tenuously connected (and I've said it before here) but:
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, mugs them then goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
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Shadowflight
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@Towr- Yah... but I'm used to English! (mostly). (The poem is hilarious, by the way)

@Dark- :lol:
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Snofox Kari
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this whole time (today anyway) i read towr as shadow and vice versa o.O

maybe need more sleep XD

as for teh conversation....languages....might as well make a "sangwich"
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Elystriana
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TheDeepDark
Feb 21 2012, 06:37 AM
I know this is only tenuously connected (and I've said it before here) but:
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, mugs them then goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
Yes yes, totally agree... :lol: That's what makes it fun! :heart:

Even if it's not technically correct, you can still rhyme bury and fury, and it doesn't sound wrong.
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Shadowflight
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Snofox Kari
Feb 21 2012, 03:58 PM
this whole time (today anyway) i read towr as shadow and vice versa o.O

maybe need more sleep XD
That's probably because of the avvies. I think Towr may have used this avatar or one similar to it in the past... (and his avatar does look like something I'd use)
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towr
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I can't find a similar avatar in my archive, though if it were a bit larger it would definitely fit right in; it's even from one of my favorite animes from a few years ago.
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Shadowflight
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Eh, maybe it just looks like something you'd use.

Ehh? Which anime is it from?
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TheDeepDark
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I will say that it looks like one that would fit well towr's "MO" as it were.
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towr
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It's from Clannad.
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Shadowflight
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Oooh, Clannad? I saw a random episode of that at an anime convention last year....

What's an MO?
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TheDeepDark
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Modus Operandi
Wikipedia puts it more concisely than I would've:
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Modus operandi (plural modi operandi) is a Latin phrase, approximately translated and backronymed as "mode of operation".[1] The term is used to describe someone's habits or manner of working, their method of operating or functioning. In English, it is frequently shortened to M.O.
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Edited by TheDeepDark, Feb 24 2012, 12:45 AM.
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Shadowflight
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o.0 that article looks way more complicated than it needs to be....
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Elystriana
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It's only seven lines long- how can it be too complicated?
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I think it's all the in-text links, multiple font styles and parenthetical phrases that do it.
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