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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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No they don't.
Different phonetics. Rhyming's phonetic.

Fucking six-toed, cloth-eared hillbilly.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:40, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)
it works for me

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:41, Reply)
So "of men" is fine but "children" isn't? Both being 2 syllables and all that jazz?

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:42, Reply)
to be fair, children is 3 syllables

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:43, Reply)
Haha get fucked

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:43, Reply)
Depends, i rarely hear any one say chy-ul-dren surely every one says chil-dren these days?

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:44, Reply)
Chil-der-ren

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:45, Reply)
No-one says that

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:46, Reply)
yes theyb do

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:46, Reply)
If they are a witch, perhaps

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:47, Reply)
I......smell........Chil:der:en!!!
On the end of Baggenfock's cock!
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:50, Reply)
why are you sniffing baggenfocks cock?

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:52, Reply)
To get the delightfully heady aroma of tweencunt

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:53, Reply)
ANDS OFF MY YOKELL TRADITIONS!

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:53, Reply)
Chil-drun

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:58, Reply)
backwards 3 versus upside down e, mate.
You don't know nuffin.

And syllable counting is relevant to metre, not rhyming.

Christ.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:43, Reply)
i measure my poetry by the foot cos it's the Engerlish way

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:45, Reply)

poetry Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:46, Reply)
i'm sorry, idgt

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:54, Reply)
CABLE!

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:56, Reply)
oooh, subtle...maybe stick with YM jojkes for this crowd

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:11, Reply)
They rhyme better than when KT Tunstall rhymes calm with palm and say palm all funny

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:45, Reply)
Calm and palm are both pronounced ca:m or pa:m in standard English.
Can't speak for yokels or shit singers, mind.

Phonetically identical.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:47, Reply)
how does clam not rhyme with palm?

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:47, Reply)
Its not that they don't rhyme, its that she makes them sound like they shouldn't by saying them funny

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:48, Reply)
So tell me again how honey is bee poo.

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:46, Reply)
Shut up and listen, I'm being serious now.
I'm trying to teach you something useful.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:47, Reply)
Look, I can Rhyme Chil:dren with "The:Glen" if I fucking want too! What are you, the b3ta police!
Honey still isn't bee poo!
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:49, Reply)
Your metre's fine, your rhyming isn't.
STOP CONFUSING METRE WITH RHYME
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:50, Reply)
why don't they rhyme. dren and glen rhyme and its how I say it so ands off my yokell traditions!

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:53, Reply)
what's the differnece?

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:53, Reply)
The difference is that not knowing the difference makes you a cunt and knowing the difference makes you not a cunt.

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:55, Reply)
are you calling me a cunt
you ghastly incumbunt
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:02, Reply)
meter is pretty much the rhythm, it describes the syllable count
You know, like 'iambic pentameter'.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:55, Reply)
Do you think for a second that I went to gay poetry college for gay poets?

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:56, Reply)
Perhaps if you had gone to gay college for gay poets
you wouldn't sound like such a cunt when you try to write a poem.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:02, Reply)
was fingered by dozer at uni^

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:03, Reply)
Better a cunt than a gay poet! My old bass player was a gay poet. What a cunt!

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:05, Reply)
bass player = cunt
FACT
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:05, Reply)
Surely there is some real skill in making them rhyme when they shouldn't officially. I applaud this linguistic progress.

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:52, Reply)
THX BB!

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:53, Reply)
Either something rhymes or it doesn't.
You don't have to make it rhyme, but he was clearly trying to and cocked it up. I'm just trying to help, man!
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:54, Reply)
All words that end with en rhyme.
Try it. ben, dren, pen, horse, ken when,
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:56, Reply)
officelol
Unexpected horse
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:56, Reply)
in bagging area

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:36, Reply)
All of those do.
Children doesn't.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:00, Reply)
"the glen" and "Children" are perfectly acceptable in my awesome rhyme and if you don't like it then I dare you to do better
But be warned! We're rhyming for pinks!
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:01, Reply)
Alright Krilliam Shakespeare, time to move on from your archaic use of English rhyme, we have rappers now, things have changed.

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 15:57, Reply)
How about this one!
Baggenfock Baggenfock
Riding through the Glen
Baggenfock Baggenfock
Likes to Chill da wren
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:00, Reply)
I have no complaints here beyond the execrable use of "street jive".

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:01, Reply)
Look I can't help it that yokells say Chill-Dren

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:02, Reply)
I liked it for its referencing of the old mummers tradition of hunting the wren
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wren_Day
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:05, Reply)
Look at that fucking picture.
What a bunch of wankers.
(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:08, Reply)
actually i was there only last week actually

(, Tue 30 Sep 2014, 16:23, Reply)

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