Monosyllables

[Benny Bunter]

Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog

 

[Benny Bunter]

Owl

 

[Benny Bunter]

teat.

 

[Benny Bunter]

dip

 

[luka]

there's lots of these beautiful arrangements of monosyllables
pah-pah-pap pap pap
it's actually very beautiful. and you also have these words, like diligent, that do the same thing, very rhythmic, short, snappy syllables that make little rhythmic patterns by themselves

 

[luka]

pick puck peck
lick luck lack

 

[luka]

nick knack knock
kip cap cop
lip lap lop

 

[luka]

this kind of soundplay sensitises the ear to vowel shifts and meaning shifts and induces the poetic trance @sus for your informtaion

 

[luka]

tip tap top

 

[luka]

wrap rip rope lope leap lap loss less lease

 

[luka]

you should give writing a go benny. not cos you will be good at it. you wont. youll be awful. like, insanely bad. humiliatingly bad. but doing it will teach you something and moreover you might start to get better. you might not. it's not garunteed. but ive seen it happen with the most hopeless cases.
i was born good. i was good from the first time i tried. but that is very rare and not even necessarily desireable.

 

[luka]

ive always read which gave me an advantage. i grew up in a wordy family. im a natural genius. but its possible to catch up with me through senstivity and diligence and sincerity.

 

[luka]

gus is at a disadvantage in as much as he is a sociopath and doesnt have a soul.

 

[sus]

Good thread this

 

[sus]

Bad thread name tho

 

[sus]

That is true, luke is right, you should write

 

[sus]

But you won't be as good as me no one is

 

[sus]

We need a list of long one-beat words. Tongue is a good start.

 

[sus]

Strength. Twelve. Straight. Screech.

 

[version]

Luke is a monosyllable.