Here's a little poem that this thread reminded me of... Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rarely ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect in it's weigh My chequer tolled me sew.
Here's a classic. Who needs proper spelling or the right word ? Ladle Rat Rotten Hut Prof. H. L. Chace of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner ladle cordage, honor itch offer lodge, dock, florist. Disk ladle gull orphan worry putty ladle rat cluck wetter ladle rat hut, an fur disk raisin pimple colder Ladle Rat Rotten Hut. Wan moaning, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut's murder colder inset. "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, heresy ladle basking winsome burden barter an shirker cockles. Tick disk ladle basking tutor cordage offer groin-murder hoe lifts honor udder site offer florist. Shaker lake! Dun stopper laundry wrote! Dun stopper peck floors! Dun daily-doily inner florist, an yonder nor sorghum-stenches, dun stopper torque wet strainers!" "Hoe-cake, murder," resplendent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, an tickle ladle basking an stuttered oft. Honor wrote tutor cordage offer groin-murder, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut mitten anomalous woof. "Wail, wail, wail!" set disk wicket woof, "Evanescent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut! Wares are putty ladle gull goring wizard ladle basking?" "Armor goring tumor groin-murder's," reprisal ladle gull. "Grammar's seeking bet. Armor ticking arson burden barter an shirker cockles." "O hoe! Heifer gnats woke," setter wicket woof, butter taught tomb shelf, "Oil tickle shirt court tutor cordage offer groin-murder. Oil ketchup wetter letter, an den - O bore!" Soda wicket woof tucker shirt court, an whinny retched a cordage offer groin-murder, picked inner windrow, an sore debtor pore oil worming worse lion inner bet. Inner flesh, disk abdominal woof lipped honor bet, paunched honor pore oil worming, an garbled erupt. Den disk ratchet ammonol pot honor groin-murder's nut cup an gnat-gun, any curdled ope inner bet. Inner ladle wile, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut a raft attar cordage, an ranker dough ball. "Comb ink, sweat hard," setter wicket woof, disgracing is verse. Ladle Rat Rotten Hut entity bet rum, an stud buyer groin-murder's bet. "O Grammar!" crater ladle gull historically,"Water bag icer gut! A nervous sausage bag ice!" "Battered lucky chew whiff, sweat hard," setter bloat-Thursday woof, wetter wicket small honors phase. "O Grammer, water bag noise! A nervous sore suture anomalous prognosis!" "Battered small chew whiff, doling," whiskered dole woof, ants mouse worse waddling. "O Grammar, water bag mouser gut! A nervous sore suture bag mouse!" Daze worry on-forger-nut ladle gull's lest warts. Oil offer sodden, caking offer carvers an sprinkling otter bet, disk hoard-hoarded woof lipped own pore Ladle Rat Rotten Hut an garbled erupt. MURAL: Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers.
From an interview with Chace when he was in his 80's in the 1960's... "I wrote it about 1940. ... It was in the days of rationing during the war and I thought about what would happen if we had to ration language. If our vocabulary were cut in half, we'd have to get along with other words." Professor Chace used the story to show his French classes the importance of intonation in language. "...if you read [the words] with the proper intonation, the meaning appears for certain people. For other people the meaning never does appear." "People who like it best are language people, teachers, lawyers and doctors. That's almost all the people who are interested in it. And children, strange to say. I've had a lot of letters from them."
This thread reminds me of a love letter that a girl wrote me in high school. She asked "What kind of colon do you where? It smells so god." Nothing says sexy like poor grammer.
I was at a restaurant that offered broccoli rape (versus rabe). That broccoli rape has got to hurt! BT
We stopped at a pub in Swaffham where we were offerd a glass of Cabaret Sauvignon! One of my partners on our senior design project kept referring to his design as "simplistic." That wasn't what he meant to say, but he was more accurate than he thought. The day before the project was due he realised his part of the design wouldn't work.
I just read on another thread about the 'Statue of limitations'. Is this statue being referred to in front of a courthouse somewhere? BT
No, it was Italian. I asked what the brocolli rape was, and they said it a bitter variety of brocolli. They definitely meant 'rabe'. I'll keep my eye out for the Spanish rape fish! BT
