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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (2656)5/24/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
Heeheehee! This was whipped out under a tad of duress. She who Must Be Obeyed was going to bed and wanted the computer off. So a few seams were bound to be left.

Good suggestions!
"clean as Queena's" I had to make "the Queen's English" rhyme somehow. Try as I might, the word that kept clanging thru the colonnades of my cortex was "penis", and I peremptorily and immovably decided that I wasn't gonna use it.

"So come ye all to the Lab, the Lab": for rhythmic continuity I humbly suggest ditching "ye". Or we could of course use the contracted "y'all", lol.



To: jbe who wrote (2656)5/25/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
And in the second paragraph:

So come ye all to the lab, the lab,
So come ye all to the lab.

I think it scans better as

So come all ye to the lab.

Not only does it scan better, but sounds much nicer. Ye all has a harsh and unpleasant sound, too remniscent of "y'all."


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