Originally posted by Grampy Bobbyprecept on precept, line upon line,
Understand... somewhat like walking through the forest and, later, discovering the many burrs that fell in love with your sweater.
Hope you'll find or remember the rest of that obscure poem. In the meanwhile, let's compose a contemporary companion piece...
"Half Educated by Half"
... little by little, lore he gat
gems, pearls, this and that
__________________________
Your turn... 😉
learning experience, yours and mine.
flickers of knowledge tucked safely away,
memory's casket filling each day.
Originally posted by Grampy Bobbyno words to add, no sad, no bad,
shared these treasures with a dear wife,
who put music and perfume in his life.
she my heart's lass, I her hearts lad.
and now thanks to Walter De la Mare:
Softly along the road of evening,
in a twilight dim with rose,
wrinkled with age and drenched with dew,
old Nod, the shepherd goes.
Originally posted by muppyman"It takes a lot of in and outdoor schoolin'
no words to add, no sad, no bad,
she my heart's lass, I her hearts lad.
and now thanks to Walter De la Mare:
Softly along the road of evening,
in a twilight dim with rose,
wrinkled with age and drenched with dew,
old Nod, the shepherd goes.
to get accustomed to my kind of foolin'."
-Robert Frost
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby- 2 -
Understand... somewhat like walking through the forest and, later, discovering the many burrs that fell in love with your sweater.
Hope you'll find or remember the rest of that obscure poem. In the meanwhile, let's compose a contemporary companion piece...
"Half Educated by Half"
... little by little, lore he gat
gems, pearls, this and that
__________________________
Your turn... 😉
... little by little, lore he gat
scouring all longitude and lat
Originally posted by darvlayHow about EXACTLY!
[b]PHENOMENAL
Nothing sets me off like this word. I absolutely hate it when used as a synonym for great or excellent.
It just sounds so... retarded. Sorry. That's the best word to describe it. It sounds retarded.
"Hey, how was that foot long, Phlabby?"
"Oh just phenomenal"
"Nice use of the word"
*Glass in the face*[/b]
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I always notice when people use "conference" as a verb. Or liase (I'm not sure if I spelled this correctly, but on the other hand, I don't think it's a word, so how could it be spelled incorrectly?). Don't you mean that you are going to "confer"?
I also wonder about people who use "truly" often: "I truly believe that we can ........". When they don't work it into a sentence, I feel like asking them if they are not telling the truth.
I heard some other talking head on the news last month refer to females as "people of gender"
Perhaps people use cutsie words and/or phrases in an effort to sound less boreing. We see the same words over and over for a life time. The only thing i am irked by is the misuse of words. Foe example the phrase "theat person disrespected me". (disrespected)? The gutter english growing from the ghettos and spilling into mainstream America is often disgusting. Also the present craze for exotic sounding names (which I believe are created in the minds of the mothers) are ridiculous. As soon as one of these foreign sounding names are heard, that person is branded a ghetto resident. That seems rather unfair to the poor kid stuck with this misbegotten name that will probably influence their life (poorly), especially in the business fields.
There's a line somewhere in the body of Ezra Pound's work (not the dreadful cantos) focused specifically on (but not restricted to the
poet's antidotal function in the face of) the downward dialectic of language and its avoidance... "to purify the dialect of the tribe."
Ezra probably smiled from his successful worm farm upon noticing this thread, particularly the post just above which I meant to quote.
-b
