Re: That's a
Daniel R. Reitman
<jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>Cheese, blended well
>into sauce B�chamel
>That's a Mornay!
Shouldn't this thread have been crossposted to r.m.f?
Dan, ad nauseam
Daniel R. Reitman
<dd...@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com> wrote:
>And if you're an earl who'd better worry
>That's a Moray
If the lady you're seen
With is named Mondegreen
That's Earl Murray.
Dan, ad nauseam
P.F. Bruns
She does voice after voice
And cartoon fans rejoice
That's a Foray
Best,
Perry
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Its origins untold
That's a more.
Raj
Black/white bird dives with ease
Through Canadian seas
That's a murre, eh.
When that H1N1
Curtails Mexican fun
That's a murrain.
Raj
Kip Williams
And what's wrong is too slight,
That's "amoral."
Kip W
Rich Brown
> Through Canadian seas
> That's a murre, eh.
Foo -- you beat me.
When you toast something sweet
At your camping retreat
That's s'more, eh?
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David Friedman
<33fb6cab-d852-479e...@e20g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
Raj <pasco...@yahoo.com> wrote:
When Toyota complains
That the work design pains
That's Muri.
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Kip Williams
> When Toyota complains
> That the work design pains
> That's Muri.
When the gun lobby's here
And Chuck Heston is near,
That's NRA.
When Greek urns you detect
With twin grips and long neck,
They're amphorae.
Kip W
Rich Brown
...groan...
When there's beautiful lights
through your boreal nights
they're aurorae.
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David Friedman
Rich Brown <rab...@freemars.org> wrote:
> > That's NRA.
> ...groan...
>
>
> When there's beautiful lights
> through your boreal nights
> they're aurorae.
When it's nothing to do with Murray or More
Or Moire or Murrey or Moray
Then it's thread drift.
Kip Williams
> When it's nothing to do with Murray or More
> Or Moire or Murrey or Moray
> Then it's thread drift.
When a letter is seen,
Number one or thirteen,
That's M or A.
Kip W
P.F. Bruns
>> That's NRA.
> ...groan...
>
>
> When there's beautiful lights
> through your boreal nights
> they're aurorae.
>
>
>
When the food that you pack
Can stop bullets and flak
That's MRE
Best,
Perry
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That's some more Flay.
Sorry.
Perry
PT
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 20:47:16 -0400, Joy Beeson
>
Point their feelers at you
They're Andorii
(or, "not Dorsai"?)
Pat
Jeff Urs
What's the next thing you cry?
That's "Some more ray!"
If it's zenite you crave,
Dig with this in a cave:
It's a mortae.
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Kip Williams
Of your impending grave,
That's a mori.
Kip W
Lee Gold
> It's one syllable long
> In the Japanese tongue:
> That's a mora.
Mora isn't in my Japanese dictionary meaning anything like "a syllable"
or even a kana sign. There is a "mora" (with long O) that means
"include, comprehend." The Japanese word for "syllable" is "onsetsu."
And I've found a rather strange webpage on Haiku
(http://thestarport.com/xeno/) which starts "Mora is Japanese rhythm.
Mora is called as "haku" in Japanese." And this meaning of "haku" isn't
in my Japanese=>English dictionary (smallish, but 1482 pages).
The Wikipedia article on "Mora (linguistics)" defines "mora" as "a unit
of sound used in phonology that determines syllable weight (which in
turn determines stress or timing) in some languages. Perhaps the most
succinct working definition was provided by the American linguist James
D. McCawley in 1968: a mora is 'Something of which a long syllable
consists of two and a short syllable consists of one.'"
Of course, Japanese has long and short vowels, but the long vowel is
written with two kana, each of which the Japanese think of as one
syllable -- and of course they also regard Terminal N as one syllable,
so that "kanji" is 3 syllables. The webpage cited above discusses this
stuff.
Why did you single out Japanese in your verse?
--Lee
blindlemm...@earthlink.net
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 20:47:16 -0400, Joy Beeson
>
> >Cheese, blended well
> >That's a Mornay!
>
> Shouldn't this thread have been crossposted to r.m.f?
>
> Dan, ad nauseam
And there's one (of a series) I did about a million years ago:
When Rhodesia's the same,
It just changes its name
That's Zimbabwe.
David Goldfarb
Lee Gold <lee....@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>Gary McGath wrote:
>> It's one syllable long
>> In the Japanese tongue:
>> That's a mora.
>
>Mora isn't in my Japanese dictionary meaning anything like "a syllable"
>or even a kana sign. There is a "mora" (with long O) that means
>"include, comprehend." The Japanese word for "syllable" is "onsetsu."
>The Wikipedia article on "Mora (linguistics)" defines "mora" as "a unit
>of sound used in phonology that determines syllable weight (which in
>turn determines stress or timing) in some languages. Perhaps the most
>succinct working definition was provided by the American linguist James
>D. McCawley in 1968: a mora is 'Something of which a long syllable
>consists of two and a short syllable consists of one.'"
This word "mora" in fact comes from Latin; the literal meaning is
"delay", but by transference it's used here as "space of time".
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Kip Williams
And think, 'Who wrote this thing?"
That's Neil Moret.
Kip W
(I have no actual idea if he pronounced it that way or not, but I always
have.)
Joe Kesselman
Rips your bathing suit free
That's a moray
When the cop hauls you in
'Cause you show too much skin
That's a more'
When you cop a plea:
"Critter in the sea
Took a bite of me
Pulled the fabric free --
Gee, I'm sawrry" <groan/>
And the judge thinks you're cute
In what's left of your suit
That's amore
Kip Williams
Well, this is where I first came in.
Kip W
Karl Johanson
news:gufgrn$23k$1...@news.motzarella.org...
> When the food that you pack
> Can stop bullets and flak
> That's MRE
The first rats I ate were IRPs (Individual Ration Packs). We found it
amusing to pronounce out the abbreviation: )
When we're having great times
then we run out of rhymes
that's a bore eh?
Karl Johanson
www.neo-opsis.ca
www.youtube.com/user/KarlJohanson42
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48525080175
Philip Chee
> Of course, Japanese has long and short vowels, but the long vowel is
> written with two kana, each of which the Japanese think of as one
> syllable -- and of course they also regard Terminal N as one syllable,
Actually a semi-vowel.
> so that "kanji" is 3 syllables. The webpage cited above discusses this
> stuff.
Three mora but two syllables.
Phil
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When the form of your
jive follows 5 - 7 -5
That is a haiku
Kip Williams
No, that's just counting syllables.
Kip W
Rob Wynne
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Rob Wynne
> In rec.music.filk Kip Williams <k...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>> blindlemm...@earthlink.net wrote:
>>> I hope any future posts will be submitted in haiku form.
>>>
>>> When the form of your
>>> jive follows 5 - 7 -5
>>> That is a haiku
>>
>> No, that's just counting syllables.
>>
>>
>> Kip W
>
I don't understand
Why these people are impressed
It's a parlour trick.
Joe Kesselman
> I don't understand
> Why these people are impressed
> It's a parlour trick.
Proper haiku has other constraints, including subject matter.
Improper haiku is another matter entirely.
Kip Williams
We should just call it lowku, to distinguish. It would throw pedants
like me out of work, but I'm sure I could find another line. Perhaps
something with apostrophe's...
Kip W
Rob Wynne
But that was my point
Five seven five's not enough
to make a haiku
P.F. Bruns
> We should just call it lowku, to distinguish. It would throw pedants
> like me out of work, but I'm sure I could find another line. Perhaps
> something with apostrophe's...
>
>
> Kip W
It's not as catchy, but since "hai" can mean "yes" in Japanese, one
could call other 5-7-5 stuff "iie-ku."
Best,
Perry
ha...ha...ha...HAIKU
(Unsightly nasal discharge)
Uh, you want this cake?
Kip Williams
> In rec.music.filk Joe Kesselman <keshlam.c...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Rob Wynne wrote:
>>> I don't understand
>>> Why these people are impressed
>>> It's a parlour trick.
>> Proper haiku has other constraints, including subject matter.
>>
>> Improper haiku is another matter entirely.
>
> But that was my point
> Five seven five's not enough
> to make a haiku
And we agreed there. Just as you agreed with me, I agreed with you.
Kip W
egregious
Martin DeMello
>
> We should just call it lowku, to distinguish. It would throw pedants
> like me out of work, but I'm sure I could find another line. Perhaps
> something with apostrophe's...
there's always 'senryu'
martin
mn...@cunyvm.cuny.edu
> >> Rob Wynne wrote:
> >>> I don't understand
> >>> Why these people are impressed
> >>> It's a parlour trick.
> >> Proper haiku has other constraints, including subject matter.
>
> >> Improper haiku is another matter entirely.
>
> > But that was my point
> > Five seven five's not enough
> > to make a haiku
>
> And we agreed there. Just as you agreed with me, I agreed with you.
Nicely done.
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All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not a syllogism.