Achebe's comment on Rhyme
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(10-21-2016, 11:13 PM)Quixilated Wrote:  But what is the protocol for speaking text slang?  I always say the letters "L-O-L" if I'm reading it out loud, not "loll" ... which would make it rhyme with Tinkerbell rather than poll.  Which is correct?  And do you say "r-o-t-f-l-m-a-o" which would rhyme with something like "where you see waffles all my own." Or would you smush the letters into a word and say "rot-flam-oh" which would rhyme instead with "shot my toe."  Or when reading rotflmao in a poem would you still say the words "rolling on the floor laughing my ass off"  which then probably takes up the whole line and makes the poem's shape a little odd ... and then you'd simply be finding rhymes for the actual words, like  "....  photographing by standoff."  As you can see, I'm terrible at rhyme, but the point is ... how do you speak the abbreviations if used in a poem?  Letters, smush, or words?
Hysterical Hysterical Hysterical

I vote for smushing, ala "rot-flam-oh."

shot my toe
just like Plaxico
made everybody go
rotflmao

The real question now is: where would the syllable stresses lie? Can't really write in meter if that isn't established.
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Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by ellajam - 10-17-2016, 07:29 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by CRNDLSM - 10-17-2016, 08:27 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by dukealien - 10-17-2016, 10:12 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by CRNDLSM - 10-17-2016, 11:04 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Leanne - 10-18-2016, 05:02 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Achebe - 10-18-2016, 06:36 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Leanne - 10-18-2016, 07:07 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by just mercedes - 10-18-2016, 07:29 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Leanne - 10-18-2016, 09:26 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by billy - 10-18-2016, 11:13 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Achebe - 10-18-2016, 04:39 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Erthona - 10-19-2016, 05:43 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by zorcas - 10-20-2016, 04:18 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Achebe - 10-20-2016, 05:29 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by QDeathstar - 10-20-2016, 05:42 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by RiverNotch - 10-20-2016, 11:25 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Leanne - 10-20-2016, 06:07 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by zorcas - 10-20-2016, 09:46 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by just mercedes - 10-20-2016, 11:05 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by zorcas - 10-21-2016, 05:24 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by CRNDLSM - 10-20-2016, 06:41 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Quixilated - 10-20-2016, 07:17 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by QDeathstar - 10-20-2016, 11:13 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Leanne - 10-21-2016, 05:34 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by ellajam - 10-21-2016, 10:00 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by rayheinrich - 10-21-2016, 06:07 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Leanne - 10-21-2016, 07:26 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by billy - 10-21-2016, 08:17 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Achebe - 10-21-2016, 08:24 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by billy - 10-21-2016, 10:00 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Quixilated - 10-21-2016, 11:13 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Lizzie - 10-22-2016, 05:02 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by ellajam - 10-21-2016, 11:23 PM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by Erthona - 10-22-2016, 01:51 AM
RE: Achebe's comment on Rhyme - by rayheinrich - 10-24-2016, 10:12 AM



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