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Before most people could read and write rhymes were
used to pass along information.
Here's my attempt to try that for "they're, there, and their"
and other words maybe.
Ahem...
They're happy there. Their location is where.
That's apostrophe, then it's ERE.
Whether near or far, last
is EIR.
And speaking of where, that's a place over there...
(interest waning)
okay, my brain hurts and I've got the flu. I'm going to bed.
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Or we could fix the english language (not the way Webster did
it, making a mess for USAns of the future). For a start, we
need more letters. All this "different pronunciations in
different contexts" rubbish... |
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if whiches wached whatches, witch which wood watche wich wach? Whatch witch which whaches wich wach. Whatch witch whitch wacher whachis whytch wiche whatcheng witch wache. But wotch wotching witchis watch witch whatching wotschier whotchers, witch worreys wotch whotcheng whitche whotechynge whottecheyeres. |
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Hey, that's pretty interesting. Let me take a good
thing and see if
I can wreck it just a little bit. |
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Which witch watches watches, |
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wrests watches from wrists? |
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with a watch washer wish. |
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So if you don't want your watch stolen be on the
lookout for a witch staring at your watch and
dreaming of stealing if from you and cleaning it. |
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//Before most people could read and write rhymes were used to pass along information.//
I can testify to the effectiveness of this method. Back in the days of my youth, in the long lost days of 1970-something & when literacy was still quite common, the UK government issued a set of rhymes to help people convert from imperial measurement to metric. I can still remember them, & use them, to this day...
A litre of water's
A pint & three quarters
Two & a quarter pounds of jam
weigh about a kilogram.
A metre equals three foot three.
It's longer than a yard, you see! |
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Before printed newspapers roving minstrels would
come into the village and sing the news in such a
way as for it to be easily memorized and repeated. |
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Not sure what it's called but when you associate
something with something else it uses a bigger part
of your brain or something. |
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I just impressed my wife by reading back about 20
random objects I memorized about a month and a
half ago when we were on vacation. You do that
thing where you have objects that you've
memorized that you associate with the object
you're supposed to memorize, the more bizarre the
juxtaposition the better. |
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So I use the phonetic radio alphabet, alpha, bravo,
charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot etc. and associate
whatever I'm supposed to memorize with the
already memorized object. |
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Sewing machine - Picture Alfalfa from Little
Rascals Sewing |
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Key - Bravo, a big key in a stadium with everybody
cheering it. |
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Chess piece - Charlie, friend of mine who plays
chess. |
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Book - Delta, a massive book covering hundreds of
square miles of the delta waterway inland from
me. |
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Etc. Try it, learn your objects, then have
somebody show you 20, 30 or more objects, mull
over them for a few minutes then hand the picture
of the objects back to the person you're trying to
impress. Then do the same thing a couple of
months later. You might miss a couple but you'll
get most of them. |
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If that can't get you to score with the chicks sorry,
can't help ya. |
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Before people could read and write rhymes,
they were used to pass information.
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Now that idea is actually worth a few dimes
because I always thought people were in formation.
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I hadn't thought of them being used for anything,
let alone passing on something
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although some things are best left alone,
especially if they are in for summation. |
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the universe, an everything, is something quite compelling.
especially when write about the corner you have spelling. |
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Person, woman, man, camera, TV... |
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Once a pun a dime their was a man who never mulled.
Its not because he didn't want to, its just because of null.
Of null? You ask, and rightly so, what does that have to do?
I'll tell you: no thing what so ever, and that includes you too. |
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Chairman chokes on juice here when
he does not see the seeds.
He tries to hear the news and finds
that German Jews here have needs. |
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He kneads some bread, and reads a thick book,
and sings to himself a nice hymn.
about Rene V. Blew during World War Two
defying the Nazi Ray Jim. |
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Mary Chris was married to
Sir (Service) Hugh Albright.
Alon Sharq borrowed a dollar from Penny.
required for the choir piece he’d write. |
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Shy Away was contemplating
crossing the red sea by kite.
Sue Hymn hired Alon Sharq
to sew her a sweater all right. |
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Itsik Spensive bought the sweater
that fell into the sewer,
and Sue Hymn took him home that night
before he tried to sue her. |
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Haim Knot was a knight who said:
“Tonight I am not what you think.”
And Sari said “I’m sorry to say,
are you sure that color is pink?” |
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Arye Shur wore spectacles,
but was skeptical of what he saw.
He sawed away any wood in his way
before he would withdraw. |
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Samantha Twitch was a very mean witch
who could inflict on you a spell.
But since Covid 19 she lost her sense of smell which
brought loss of taste for good poetry as well. |
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