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I keep having irresistible urges to rhyme my speech. I'm not having one now. thank [Insert someone here]. Also, hast thou descended to compelle'st thouself to the language of olde? Or have you ever felt compelled to speak in old language?

I await ye answers,
Thou'st must sure reply,
For if 'twas not post,
Then surely be no man thy.

never on either counts.
I also had the urge not to post a reply as well.

never on either counts.
I also had the urge not to post a reply as well.

Not ever in real life?

All the time, especially archaic. That just sounds cool.

Also, hast thou descended to compelle'st thouself to the language of olde?
If I read something such as Shakespeare for a few hours, I often start talking in the same style for a while afterwards. It's very strange, and people find it rather amusing.

No, that would make me and extremely old school rapper.

Not ever in real life?


nope.
what can I say?- I'm dull.

If I read something such as Shakespeare for a few hours, I often start talking in the same style for a while afterwards. It's very strange, and people find it rather amusing.

I know what you mean. At school, we're currently doing a load of macbeth for our SAT preparations and I just speak to my friends fluently in it. And they all say what. Unless they have a slight idea of what I'm saying.

I await ye answers,
Thou'st must sure reply,
For if 'twas not post,
Then surely be no man thy.
Your archaic English needs some work. 'Ye' is subjective - the possessive form is 'your'. If that's not archaic enough, use 'thine' (which would address us individually).

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/pronoun_paradigms.html

Your archaic English needs some work. 'Ye' is subjective - the possessive form is 'your'. If that's not archaic enough, use 'thine' (which would address us individually).

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/pronoun_paradigms.html

I dub thee Thread killer:rolleyes:

Yes on both counts. and yes to an as yet unmentioned third option which be that often I seek the speeche o' the piratical.

Your archaic English needs some work. 'Ye' is subjective - the possessive form is 'your'. If that's not archaic enough, use 'thine' (which would address us individually).

http://www.alt-usage-english.org/pronoun_paradigms.html

Archaic grammer nazi.

no but every now and then we do an opera thing around the house where we sing instead of speak.

Archaic grammer nazi.
Now there's a title of which I can be proud.

no but every now and then we do an opera thing around the house where we sing instead of speak.

I sometimes do the same thing at school. Although it did distract the art teacher long enough for someone to put cling film all over the toilet seats.

No.
Now go.

Do you mean speech as in conversation or as in oration type stuff? With conversation - no, probably because I'm not that quick. For a speech speech, ocassionally rhyming can help with the flow and help keep people awake and interest. Even better is if you can work a rhythm into the speech. It's hard, but guarenteed to keep your audience attentive. Churchill was great at putting rhythms into is speeches, or so I'm told.

Yes, I quite often end up rhyming in school. I also descend into Jamesian English often, but with better grammar than you.

Yes, I quite often end up rhyming in school. I also descend into Jamesian English often, but with better grammar than you.
Hey, I'm the offical 'archaic grammar nazi' of this thread!

Nah, I'm good.

No, that would make me and extremely old school rapper.

Heh.

Not rhyming. Old style, sometimes but I don't know it that well. I do sometimes feel like inventing and using new slang mid-conversation.

Olde English is lame, so nope,
but rhyming stuff you say is dope.

does Yoda Mode count?


hehe

Hmm. A friend of mine and I sometimes shout Shakesperean insults at people.

"You culliny barbermonger!"

I don't do it in conversation very often. It kind of makes the people next to you smile nervously and start sidling as unnoticeably as possible towards the exit. But if you insist....

If you ever should ask me
Why it is that I speak in rhyme
I ponder the question patiently
Then do it just about every time
In a manner most inconvenient
To that time or place
Because it's simply more expedient
Just to see that look on their face

Your turn.

I wonder what you're saying
Surely you are delaying
Trying to think of something articulate
Days pass cause you can't think of it
My poetry hits hard and fast
Still you think as the days pass
Thinking of something to rythme
All I'm thinking is why am I wasting my time
What's the point of this thread
I'll give it three more pages before it's dead

Our region had a communal poetry competition, where each poster would spontaneously come up with two extra lines. It had a shaky start, but ended up working quite well:

Safalra starts a poem, hoping rhymes
Continue; posters write amusing lines
DPL gives a grin
Thinks "What the hell", and dives right in
But throws the rhyming guidelines in the bin -
The first should rhyme with former poster's last
Blast!
Posting in haste, I add to our woes
Forgetting to paste additional prose
For those who come after to follow
No matter; being right is sometimes hollow -
But now the rules are clear our poem starts
And may use of italics warm our hearts!

It's warm outside, all is bright
I dream and watch young swallows in playful flight
For Africa they all-too-soon will leave
(But African swallows are non-migratory Steve)
Were any carrying coconuts, I wonder,
When coming back from the land down-under?
But false and messed-up biology aside
It's time I found myself a bride.
Perusing the mail-order catalogues
I realised then: what does it matter? Cogs
And gears did turn in my mind, and then a thought:

What if a female dolphin I brought
To meet my parents as my bride?
And then upon the evening tide
We'd sail away together
Or - even better -
Ride through time and space
Across the briney sea we'd race
And together under starry skies
(And clouds of mosquitoes and flies)
We declare our love to be
Lasting for all of etenity

And when the light of Summer morning comes
We'll hear the beat of distant drums
Loud and clear; a beat that warns
Of Winter evenings after Summer morns
And all that's beautiful and good will die
But, like the Phoenix, must resurrect and fly
Our love, so free and right
Will last through dark and dank and deepest night
And in the morning, dawning light of day

And so on. You can tell my lines 'cause they're in iambic pentameter...

I cannot say that I do often rhyme,
My speech as I do not possess the skill.
To do so in the present nick of time,
Requires a speed that I am without still.
Though if required to pen a poem that is,
Written with thought and paced with standard tick,
In classic Pentameter scheme like this,
Which also should be read as Iambic.
(Though I do admit that the strain of em-
Phasising the words in the correct way,
Does become a pain when trying a tem-
Porary thow-away rhyme - like this, say.)
Maybe this rhyme I should proclaim 'sonnet',
By adding one rhyming couplet onit!


(Ouch, that's terrible..! Now you know why I don't do it regularly.)

My kids and I play word games, one day we had to speak only in haiku, one weekend we shot for speaking in iambic pentameter, and once we went a whole day trying not to say 4 letter words, we couldn't say "want" we had to say "desire", we couldn't even really tell anyone what we were doing without a lot of trouble. It annoys just about everyone we come into contact with, but it's fun and it's a learning experience so.....you know, whatever.

My kids and I play word games, one day we had to speak only in haiku, one weekend we shot for speaking in iambic pentameter, and once we went a whole day trying not to say 4 letter words, we couldn't say "want" we had to say "desire", we couldn't even really tell anyone what we were doing without a lot of trouble. It annoys just about everyone we come into contact with, but it's fun and it's a learning experience so.....you know, whatever.
Do you ever get e-mails from crazy European film-makers wanting to buy the rights to your life story?

Do you ever get e-mails from crazy European film-makers wanting to buy the rights to your life story?
no........should I?

My kids and I play word games, one day we had to speak only in haiku, one weekend we shot for speaking in iambic pentameter, and once we went a whole day trying not to say 4 letter words, we couldn't say "want" we had to say "desire", we couldn't even really tell anyone what we were doing without a lot of trouble. It annoys just about everyone we come into contact with, but it's fun and it's a learning experience so.....you know, whatever.An admirable arrangement... 'As alliteration appeared as an admissable activity?

An admirable arrangement... 'As alliteration appeared as an admissable activity?
good idea.....will alternate to alliteration tomorrow.

it may be hard for the 2 year old to grasp, but the 4 year old should have fun with it.

I figure the word games help build her vocabulary since she has to come up with words that she doesn't usually use to try to communicate with me. LOL

Always absolutely adored alliteration.

Maybe you just have't found your secret talent of rapping in old english.

Alliteration always aids attendance! Could cunning consonance cater creativity? Avast, the mast is past! Sink the dank plank! Ye drink to think, ye kink the link!

I await ye answers,
Thou'st must sure reply,
For if 'twas not post,
Then surely be no man thy.

No doubt, THAT sounds cool. In my language or rather my dialect, rhyming sounds rather silly (which doesn't stop some people from making rap music).

good idea.....will alternate to alliteration tomorrow.

it may be hard for the 2 year old to grasp, but the 4 year old should have fun with it.

I figure the word games help build her vocabulary since she has to come up with words that she doesn't usually use to try to communicate with me. LOL

That's a good idea. If you can make education fun or interesting it is much more effective. That combined with starting kids education at an early age will probably have very good results!