Haikus are boring / So we switched to limericks / Refrigerator.
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Spotted an issue
In the first haiku of three;
I @accalia'd
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is it fridge logic?
is it woman in fridge trope?
benign, feminist?Benign feminist?
No, many are not benign.
Be gone, feminist!
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Maybe it's becauseI'm from the south so I usewords like ain't and y'all
Ha! I guessèd right
Your accent so uncouth.
Discourse haikus breaks.
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Discourse Five Oh Four
Where did my post go this time?
Jefficated on.
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That term is as old
as discourse is shitty. How
did it get left out?
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Discourse grammar is
portmanteau heaven. Go forth
and make up new words.
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That makes it easier
How is that 6?
I'll give you 7 on the last line of the first one, that was a brainfart.
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Maybe it's me not being a native English speaker but I don't see it at all.
Or maybe it's me not getting the joke.
Filed under: Fuck your language
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it is eez - ee - err
not the nonnative tongue and much
shorter, eez - yer way
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English has no problems dipthonging the fuck out of words like Discourse yet you separate "sier" into two different syllables.
Filed under: Fuck your language twice over
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Fuck your language
That's how we got American English
@dstopia said:Fuck your language twice over
That's how we got Australian English
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English is a mutt
of a written language.
Do not expect sense.
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German origin,
Romance and Greek influenced,
It's a clusterfuck
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Well, I'm not good enough at Japanese yet to stick to a language where all vowels are always syllables (and a terminal n, and possibly a doubled consonant, as it would be rendered in a roman alphabet)
できますが、
へただとおもう。
つかれたよ。
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Thanks to this topic
I keep counting syllables
on all that I type.
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We blame you lot that
Worchestershire's syllables are
somehow only threeNot that the French do
any better of course, but
they confuse us allIn what other place
does a language use letters
as just a garnish?
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At least it will not
make you rhyme out load always
that is annoying
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Do not forget Poles
And their vowel aversion
KRZYSZTOF SOSZYNSKI?
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I don't know how to
read that but, the letters do
something at least, right?Seriously, French
and British words use them for
nothing but the looks
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KRZYSZTOF is Kristof
See all those extra letters?
SOSZYNSKI is... close.
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Presumably, the
SZ sounds different from
S or Z themselvesBut wuh-stuh-shuh is
not at all how worchestershire
looks, at least to me
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i always thought it
was wurr - stuh - shurr, then again
I am not from there.
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Yes, and that is how
I would say it too, but it
is a British word
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it is those crazy
Bostonians and their bad
accents. British too.
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This thread has died, so
I am left with no choice now:
Necromancy Time!
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Thread drifts in the wind
Like cherry blossom in spring.
Time to shake things up!(A proper haiku doesn't just follow 5–7–5, but also has a nature reference in it and a sort of catch in the third line that changes how the reader/listener thinks about the first two lines. It's a much harder form to write properly than it appears to be at first glance. Good fun!)
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According to this
Jeffling, I guess we're all just
Doing It Wrong. So?
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(A proper haiku doesn't just follow 5–7–5, but also has a nature reference in it and a sort of catch in the third line that changes how the reader/listener thinks about the first two lines. It's a much harder form to write properly than it appears to be at first glance. Good fun!)
Once I knew a man that came from Belgium
Who, though he used Discourse rather seldom
Found the software so broken
That he loudly has spoken
Of organizing an armed rebellion
Filed under: am i doing it right
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Snowflake protests rules.
Waves pound the forgotten shore.
Do better next time!
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Limerick is cute
Topic stands like wizened oak.
Time to change title?
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The sun climbs the sky
With Oracle, I open
Another SR
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am i doing it right
The meter could use more work (read a few limericks out loud and you'll get the idea), and line 5 is supposed to rhyme with the first two, but in general you're on the right track. Not bad for a first try.
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and line 5 is supposed to rhyme with the first two
Well you try finding exact rhymes for Belgium.
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line 5 is supposed to rhyme with the first two
Not a perfect rhyme
But I'd say it's better than
"Seldom" with "boredom"
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Not bad for a first try.
And better than virtually the entire œuvre by Edward Lear.
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The meter could use more work
Ooh! Ooh! Let me try!There once was a man from Belgium
Who's use of Discourse was seldom
Found the software so broken
That he loudly has spoken
Of organizing an armed rebellionI was going to fix the rhyme, but I can't be bothered
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read a few limericks out loud and you'll get the idea
All the verses here have the correct meter and rhyme
Aurelio Voltaire - This Ship's Going Down (OFFICIAL) – 04:48
— The Lair of VoltaireA gargantuan hole in the bow,
will the ocean to enter allow.
but more a sin
than letting it in
is letting our good fortune out.
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You're right; I've always thought limericks are done in iambic pentameter for lines 1,2,5.
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Just got the topic.
Well done whoever did that.
Laparoscopic.
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iambic pentameter
Nah, it's three trios: da-da-DUM da-da-DUM da-da-DUM. And the centers are an iamb and a triplet: da-DUM da-da-DUM.
Wiki says the word I want is anapaest, not "trio". Anapaestic trimeter.
Line five flows better sometimes as an iamb followed by two anapaests, making it one syllable shorter than the others. Sometimes syllables are missing in the middle, too:
A gar gan | tu an hole | in the bow,
will the o | cean to ent | er al low.
but more | [missing] a sin
than let | ting it in
is let | ting our good | for tune out.I guess they can be amphibrachs too, thinking more about it... Wiki says
The defining "foot" of a limerick's meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but catalexis (missing a weak syllable at the beginning of a line) and extra-syllable rhyme (which adds an extra unstressed syllable) can make limericks appear amphibrachic (ta-TUM-ta).
Which is pretty evident anytime a limerick starts with "there once was"
There once | was a man | from Nan tuck | et
Who kept | all his cash | in a buck | et.
his wife | named Nan, <-- Two iams
Ran off | with a man
And as | for the buck | et, Nan tuck | et.Which is iamb due to catalexis , anapaest, anapaest, extra-syllable all the way through lines 1, 2, and 5, plus an extra missing syllable on line 3.
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…so my rewrite of @Maciejasjmj's original is rhythmically wrong on every single line…
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Sometimes syllables are missing in the middle, too:
And there's often an unaccented syllable at the end of the line ( --*|--*|--*- ) (hypercatalexis).
…so my rewrite of @Maciejasjmj's original is rhythmically wrong on every single line…
I was actually right - you did miss syllables in 1 and 2, and the feet are slightly awkward (iamb - anapest - amphibrach, if I count correctly).
I've mostly seen the center with two anapests, though.
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…so my rewrite of @Maciejasjmj's original is rhythmically wrong on every single line…
It's not quite THAT bad:
There once | was a man | from Bel gium
Who's use | of Dis course | was sel dom
Found the soft | ware so bro | ken
That he loud | ly has spo |ken
Of org | an izi ng | an armed | re bel lioniamb due to catalexis, anapaest, amphibrach,
iamb due to catalexis, anapaest, amphibrach,
anapaest, anapaest, hypercatalexis,
anapaest, anapaest, hypercatalexis*
all hell breaks loose* This line here was hard because I had trouble pronouncing it with any rhythm due to the hypercatlexis on the line before.I may be wrong
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I did consider changing line 4 to 'That he has loudly spoken', but it didn't quite sit right with me, so I left it as it was.
And the last line can be fixed:
Of start | ing an armed | re bel lion