When a child asks you to give her a word so she can come up with other words that rhyme, do you tell her “Orange”? Or just think “Orange” and say “Moon”?
I tell her, listen kid, no one but no one rhymes nuffin wiff nuffin dese days, and you won’t neither if you knows what’s good fer ya. I tells her, listen kid, poetry is unread outside the universities and undead inside the universities. Then I takes her to the bus station and puts her on the next bus outta town. And she don’t rhyme no more.
Or I make up a word that sounds funny. Fnoozable, maybe.
I tell ‘em to go read Eeksy-Peeksy.
Then I give ‘em a word with more than four syllables, like “infinitessimal,” and sit back and watch. 9 times out of ten, they come up with “deep in the vestibule.”
In my experience, you give a kid a word and ask for a rhyme, then you stand there like an idiot because the entire class is staring at you like you just said something in Swahili.
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This all happened in German, by the way. My younger daughter is experimenting with language. We have a book of nonsense poems, in German, I read her at bedtime some nights.
I’ll try to discourage the rhyming, though, Eeksy. Thanks for the heads-up.
I tell her, listen kid, no one but no one rhymes nuffin wiff nuffin dese days, and you won’t neither if you knows what’s good fer ya. I tells her, listen kid, poetry is unread outside the universities and undead inside the universities. Then I takes her to the bus station and puts her on the next bus outta town. And she don’t rhyme no more.
Or I make up a word that sounds funny. Fnoozable, maybe.
I tell ‘em to go read Eeksy-Peeksy.
Then I give ‘em a word with more than four syllables, like “infinitessimal,” and sit back and watch. 9 times out of ten, they come up with “deep in the vestibule.”
orange comes to mind, yes. moon makes it to the final draft.
Is this child normally inclined to drool?
I like a bit of horseplay, but I’ve got better things to do than wipe up.
In my experience, you give a kid a word and ask for a rhyme, then you stand there like an idiot because the entire class is staring at you like you just said something in Swahili.
This all happened in German, by the way. My younger daughter is experimenting with language. We have a book of nonsense poems, in German, I read her at bedtime some nights.
I’ll try to discourage the rhyming, though, Eeksy. Thanks for the heads-up.