Jun. 18th, 2010
The big bug had a bag.
The duck made a quick quack.
I stood and stared at his stuttering steed.
Kit-kat, ship-shape, hip hop. What's it called when you do that? I can't think of the term. I remember rhyming of course, and alliteration, but what's this again?
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steorra! It is apparently known as para-rhyme or double consonance. English certainly uses it enough for effect that I *knew* I couldn't be the first one to notice it and want a name!
Also, consonance of just the last consonant is called Half rhyme.
The duck made a quick quack.
I stood and stared at his stuttering steed.
Kit-kat, ship-shape, hip hop. What's it called when you do that? I can't think of the term. I remember rhyming of course, and alliteration, but what's this again?
Edit: Thank you,
steorra! It is apparently known as para-rhyme or double consonance. English certainly uses it enough for effect that I *knew* I couldn't be the first one to notice it and want a name!Also, consonance of just the last consonant is called Half rhyme.
Two articles
Jun. 18th, 2010 08:17 pm
Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel protested the integration of a religious girl's school
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And, in other news, nobody is taking away student metrocards. Truthfully, I think nobody really believed they would, because students and their parents make their school choices depending on getting those cards. When you live in the Bronx and go to school in Queens, you can't just walk to save the fare. They just suggested it so that they could take it off the table later and say "Look, we saved the student metrocards, but we still need to cut the budget so you can't grumble about losing express service at this and that stop". Everybody is scrambling now to produce ads saying "Protest cutting THIS service, protest cutting THAT service, THIS publicly funded something needs the cash", but at this point in the game the state, the city, they have to cut *something* from *somewhere*, and we'll all be unhappy. But at least the kids can get to school.
( Read more... )
( Read more... )
And, in other news, nobody is taking away student metrocards. Truthfully, I think nobody really believed they would, because students and their parents make their school choices depending on getting those cards. When you live in the Bronx and go to school in Queens, you can't just walk to save the fare. They just suggested it so that they could take it off the table later and say "Look, we saved the student metrocards, but we still need to cut the budget so you can't grumble about losing express service at this and that stop". Everybody is scrambling now to produce ads saying "Protest cutting THIS service, protest cutting THAT service, THIS publicly funded something needs the cash", but at this point in the game the state, the city, they have to cut *something* from *somewhere*, and we'll all be unhappy. But at least the kids can get to school.
( Read more... )
Remember the link I posted earlier?
Jun. 18th, 2010 08:33 pm
The disturbing one about abusive relationships, "How to keep somebody with you forever"?
Go read this (How Conservative Values Create Sick Systems) now.
Go read this (How Conservative Values Create Sick Systems) now.