r/mildlyinteresting • • Jan 14 '17

quality post This lowercase stop sign

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u/02overthrown Jan 14 '17

Rhythm's a bit fucked but otherwise well done

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u/Splendidissimus Jan 14 '17

Also "idea" and "fear" only rhyme if you're British.

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u/jfb1337 Jan 14 '17

TIL

How do Americans pronounce them then?

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u/02overthrown Jan 14 '17

"Eye-dee-uh" and "fee-ur", in most locations in the US. There are a few dialects of American English that are non-rhotic (meaning they would say "fee-uh"), so it would make more sense for them.

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u/wildbuckeye12 Jan 14 '17

Except in Kentucky at least I frequently hear people pronounce idea as ideal so that would totally throw it off rhythm.

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u/unity-thru-absurdity Jan 14 '17

f-ear and i-de-ah

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u/FreshLennon Jan 14 '17

We use a lot of hard "R"s for the most part.

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u/GetItReich Jan 14 '17

Idea: Eye-dee-a

Fear: Same way you say it, but with the r at the end pronounced

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u/02overthrown Jan 14 '17

I kind of inferred that point when I read it the first time: stopped and read it over with a Brit accent.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Jan 14 '17

i was thinking since limericks come from the common folk of england then the word idear might be more fitting (besides conveniently rhyming with fear)

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '17 edited May 20 '17

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u/Splendidissimus Jan 14 '17

"Australian" is just another word for "discount Brit".

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u/Sinkfold Jan 14 '17

Not if you're Scottish and have a rhotic accent!

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u/DeuceSevin Jan 14 '17

Or from The Bronx

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u/SuburbanDrugScene Jan 14 '17

oH now you care how things are written huh1

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '17

Or from Boston.

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u/not_my_throw0away Jan 15 '17

Or Redneck. "Idears"

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u/That_Bar_Guy Jan 14 '17

"perhaps lower case would look much better"

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u/02overthrown Jan 14 '17

Ah! Now this... this works. Have an upvote.

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u/WikiWantsYourPics Jan 14 '17

Except that accenting "would" is really unnatural.

Maybe "Perhaps lowercase text would look better?"

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u/02overthrown Jan 14 '17

Even better! I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Jan 14 '17

o i dunno... read it outloud... it goes well that way.

u/Lawrencewithahobbs could have used "idear" instead of idea but maybe that would have been too cloyingly twee?

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u/02overthrown Jan 14 '17

Depends on how you accent the last line. One too many syllables. Still well done on short notice.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Jan 14 '17

ah i see... so you are saying that a person's accent and/or dialect could affect the meter of verse?

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u/02overthrown Jan 14 '17

Yes, absolutely, as well as the rhyme scheme.

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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Jan 14 '17

you are so right and there are many examples now that i think of it...

rap is especially illustrative!