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Jan 23, 2016 4:44 AM
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fredfnord
Fine. I'm okay with gunwale. But Melpomene? That's an English word? That's like saying 'donkey' is French because a Frenchman said it. Once.
Ibelieveintheupvotefairy
Tl;dr: An oldie but a goodie!
sapyro
Fucker mother English you do it speak?!
QuazMasta
Several end lines have more than 1 pronunciation that only works out in context. Tear, wind, etc. Poem could have omitted those and improved
Syncronist
I did it easily. o-o And i am Malaysian. I would gladly record it. I did it in a sing-song way! :D
ICantDecideOnAUserNameAndKeepChangingIt
Am I the only one who read it all in meter?
zamirovski
We are imgurians... not savages...
DarthFluffyBottom
I would loved to hear Alan Rickman to read this, but alas....
SchrodingersDictator
Aaaaand Facebook is leaking again.
JackOfA11
I got bored after the first verse
charonsfee
I can't read poetry that forgot it's grammar
moldboy
It's like if Dr Seuss wrote for adults
Tokoloshe
I am an English teacher in Germany and I use this to show my students that they have to learn English pronunciation, not just guess.
Ki3r4nn
Im glad I gave up mid way to then see how long it was.
kobegrace10
hahaha, that poem is a total disaster!
chendaddy
GTFOH trying to convince me 10% of the English-speaking world knows how to pronounce "Terpischore."
Idsertian
Native English speaker here, never even seen this word until just now. Going by the rhyming, "Terp-sickery", would be my guess.
Spocky730
And people say English isn't a beautiful or complex language. Try again I dare say.
darkmikasonfire
It makes me sad, I don't know how to pronounce some of these words without context clues cause I've never seen the word before :-(
Emangelo
This was too long to read
SublteTextErrors
Tl;dr I suck at my own native language.
BantersaurousRex
TL;DR, English is made up. Its my native language and they just sat down and made it aaaaalll up. Reference, Shakespeare.
Apollo5615
As opposed to other languages that grew on trees?
AbsolutelyNotTheNSA
It's well known that German was discovered in 1972 in a field just outside of Dresden, by Hanz German. Hence the name.
NonConformistFlamingo
I performed this as a monogue in my high school theater production years ago... I can still feel my entire oral region cramping.
NonConformistFlamingo
*monologue
nerdychick23
I actually made it through about 95% pf it this time.
mercurialmind
But what pf this comment?
nerdychick23
Shit. Didn't see that
ObnoxiousLabrador
Hyphen, roughen, nephew phtephen
LompHoofd
i like you
ObnoxiousLabrador
Thanks ;)
Zlimeshili
What the hel is a sward
SirSidneyRuffDiamond
a field basically
omygusMaker
A wingless bird with hairy feathers.
edzellblue
All the bits that don't make sense are the fault of the French.
BoomaBB
English mugs other languages in dark alleys for new words.
GeTRoGuE
French is the infant of great orgy that took place over hundreds of decades and you English folks stole a lot from us and so did we.
talideon
The great vowel shift is as much, if not more, to blame for all the issues in English than French.
foxdove
Still. Stranger does not rhyme with anger? I had to stop for like 3 min. I don't think the French did that one.
Lostabarnacos
As a French Canadian. Sorry/Pardon
Alxchemist
Its okay this is mainly the fault of the Normands way back. We blame you for other things though, like Hull.
Alxchemist
*Normans
zamirovski
Hull... what a lousy place...
Chemnerd263
Got about half way through when I decided, fuck it!
AbsolutelyNotTheNSA
Same...read it in my best thespian voice but got way to board, bored, broad and bowed.
StopStaringAtMyUserNameItsVeryShy
I got about half way through, then I started scrolling to see how much was left and I said fuck it!
GrizzlyWicks
Yes, mine to was a well reasoned "Fuck this shit"
BoobDylan
...Which is to duck, bucket, but Phuket.
FsImgur
But knot Dickbutt?
poopylovesexplodey
This is fantastic and I love it. I will try again when am sober.
BitchIShouldBe
Ditto
meowmix82
My god, me too, although I'll still try it with an English accent.
jenileabedelia
It's a lot less exciting sober
jenileabedelia
It's a lot less exciting sober
saggyballbaggy
Grammatical errors in titles that speak about the correct use of English smh. Every damn time.
thatcanbe
As a non english speaker, what exactly is the error?
saggyballbaggy
It should read; "English, motherf*cker! Can you speak it?". First part needs a comma, the last was a question, so needs a question mark.
thatcanbe
thx
lostprinceofzembla
That is a bad poem
chettlar
Yeah some of the meter I just had no idea how I was supposed to read it
skelekittycat
I think it was almost meant to be in ABAB format, but some of the lines were a few syllables short.
chettlar
Ehh, it switched from ABAB to AABB pretty regularly. Actually mostly it was just AABBCCDD etc. but the actual rhythm is what I mean.