tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post8302098566609575556..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: Terse and WerseTimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1378253035837653092007-04-12T13:14:00.000+10:002007-04-12T13:14:00.000+10:00I still maintain that many of Shakespeare's best l...I still maintain that many of Shakespeare's best lines are made almost entirely out of one-syllable words. Not my absolutest and favouritest, though: <BR/><BR/>NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!<BR/><BR/>I still don't know what Lear is talking about there, but there you go. <BR/><BR/>Spencer was the same: <BR/><BR/><I>"I wrote her name one day upon the strand,<BR/>But came the tide and washed it away;<BR/>I wrote her name again with second hand,<BR/>But came the tide and made my pains his prey..."</I><BR/><BR/>'Washed' is a two syllable word here.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-39701564894703031072007-04-12T10:26:00.000+10:002007-04-12T10:26:00.000+10:00Mmm. Words. I love them when they're short, I love...Mmm. Words. I love them when they're short, I love them when they're long. <BR/><BR/>Your use of the word "putz" reminds me that I have a particular fondness for Yiddish insults - others include schmuck, schlemiel, nebbish, meshuga...Legal Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01096038577529334966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-83566960484335819752007-04-12T10:08:00.000+10:002007-04-12T10:08:00.000+10:00It's not the words you use, it's what you do with ...It's not the words you use, it's what you do with them that counts!<BR/><BR/>The rhythm of the sentence is where it's at!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-15820880139998264492007-04-12T07:12:00.000+10:002007-04-12T07:12:00.000+10:00Elbow. Emboss. Blossom. Slumber.Two syllables is w...Elbow. Emboss. Blossom. Slumber.<BR/><BR/>Two syllables is where it's at.Alexis, Baron von Harlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675225579658733004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-52545837392045058542007-04-12T00:31:00.000+10:002007-04-12T00:31:00.000+10:00Posts are meant to have a point? Have I been doin...Posts are meant to have a point? Have I been doing blogging wrong?Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-61724775077526260332007-04-11T23:55:00.000+10:002007-04-11T23:55:00.000+10:00I'm afraid there wasn't really a point to this pos...I'm afraid there wasn't really a point to this post. It was just an attempt to write something consisting of entirely one-syllable words, and yet make it completely incomprehensible. I think I probably did it!<BR/><BR/>I should offer advance apologies to Brunette, as this is the SECOND time I've ripped off that post for my own fell blogging purposes (Vibewire's offline at the moment, for some reason, so I can't)TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-30819436748113859182007-04-11T23:48:00.000+10:002007-04-11T23:48:00.000+10:00If you can daze, faze, haze, or craze a friend wit...If you can <I>daze, faze, haze, or craze a friend with one flick of the tongue</I> then you need not speak at all.<BR/><BR/>I really should have read more of that [and more thoroughly] before commenting.Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-7075547523774872842007-04-11T23:43:00.000+10:002007-04-11T23:43:00.000+10:00"I told him to go forth and flourish, but not in t..."I told him to go forth and flourish, but not in those words" - Woody Allen. <BR/><BR/>"We Ents believe that if something is worth saying, it's worth taking a long time to say" - old Jungle saying. (Well, no, it's from Tolkien, actually).TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.com