09-25-2014, 01:14 PM
(09-25-2014, 06:46 AM)ellajam Wrote: I love that we are discussing the fraction of a second that it takes to read the word on, and that it matters.
Oh Jaminella, you unlearned soul! Dale was referring to the Japanese phonetic element "on" (or "onji").
He was saying that your "on" wasn't on enough to be an "on" so leave it off.
Which, needless to say, turns me onji. Right on, Dale!
On-less rewrite:
old pond
frog jumps in
piranha
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions