The poem is titled, "The Chaos," by G N Trenite. If you Google G N Trenite, the fortunecity link has quite a bit of information about the author and the poem.
@chuxuezhe1 Ahh! Thank you! It looks like I missed out quite a few lines. It's by far the best poem about the English language (and all its oddities) that I have ever come across.
Just wanted to comment again to pass on a couple other items.
-- If you Google [“Why English Is So Hard” + anonymous], the worldwidewords link has another poem you might like.
-- Also, another related item for your ‘lingua file,’ if you collect such things: “Did he believe that Caesar could see the people seized the sea.” I don’t have a source for that one.
(Yikes, I just accidentally hit the thumbs down icon on your comment; was not intended)
@leilajiva So far as I know, that’s all there is to the “Caesar” line; it was part of an essay discussing the fallacy of spelling rules for English.
I had no idea this was such a rich topic for poetry (and prose)…did a little more searching and found a couple more sites with a wealth phonetic/orthographic angst. I can’t put the URLs in, but search:
1. "spellingsociety" + "our strange lingo"
2. "linguistlist" + "pronunciation poem"
I love the items (erroneously) attributed to Shaw and Twain
Thanks for the wonderful recitation!
The poem is titled, "The Chaos," by G N Trenite. If you Google G N Trenite, the fortunecity link has quite a bit of information about the author and the poem.
chuxuezhe1 1 year ago
@chuxuezhe1 Ahh! Thank you! It looks like I missed out quite a few lines. It's by far the best poem about the English language (and all its oddities) that I have ever come across.
leilajiva 1 year ago
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chuxuezhe1 1 year ago
@leilajiva
It really is a tour de force.
Just wanted to comment again to pass on a couple other items.
-- If you Google [“Why English Is So Hard” + anonymous], the worldwidewords link has another poem you might like.
-- Also, another related item for your ‘lingua file,’ if you collect such things: “Did he believe that Caesar could see the people seized the sea.” I don’t have a source for that one.
(Yikes, I just accidentally hit the thumbs down icon on your comment; was not intended)
chuxuezhe1 1 year ago
@chuxuezhe1 Is the latter part of a longer tongue twister? thanks for the links. I love this stuff.
leilajiva 1 year ago
@leilajiva So far as I know, that’s all there is to the “Caesar” line; it was part of an essay discussing the fallacy of spelling rules for English.
I had no idea this was such a rich topic for poetry (and prose)…did a little more searching and found a couple more sites with a wealth phonetic/orthographic angst. I can’t put the URLs in, but search:
1. "spellingsociety" + "our strange lingo"
2. "linguistlist" + "pronunciation poem"
I love the items (erroneously) attributed to Shaw and Twain
chuxuezhe1 1 year ago
@chuxuezhe1
There's some great stuff out there!
[I] simply cannot get the silly
Inconsistency of whole,
With knoll and goal and bowl and soul....
From My new favorite: Professor P. Dantick's Dictum on Spelling ;-)
leilajiva 1 year ago
you bring the words to life
OriginalScratch 1 year ago
@OriginalScratch thanks scratch :)
leilajiva 1 year ago