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There's a part in "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje where he talks about the word "curl" as something that you have to say slowly... you just can't rush it...
There's something so sensual about the word curl. Got any other good, slow and sensual words?
I like "rust"...
There's something so sensual about the word curl. Got any other good, slow and sensual words?
I like "rust"...
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 3:13 PMbrowse
can't rush that either! -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 4:02 PMMeander
Peruse
Contemplate
Consideration
Ruminate
Deliberate (when used as a verb, not an adjective)
Those are all words that to me, at least, seem to beg to be pronounced slowly. -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 8:13 PMPleasure
Passion
Purrr
Hush
Lush
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 8:59 PMlugubrious - if said properly, stretching the second sylable, it becomes almost onemonepoetic -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Wed, June 3, 2009 - 8:21 AMThis reminds me of Pope's lines from his "Essay In Criticism":
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense:
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar;
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
The line too labors, and the words move slow;
---The last two lines move marvelously slow.
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Thu, June 4, 2009 - 12:42 AMIt is difficult to say the word lugubrious with frowning... -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Thu, June 4, 2009 - 12:43 AMOoops... Without, I meant...
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Sat, June 6, 2009 - 12:16 PMContinent. I like to hit all the syllables. -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Sat, June 6, 2009 - 5:49 PMI like to hit all the syllables.
And it is mete and right that you should so do. Otherwise, you might be accused of being incontinent. :-) -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Sat, June 6, 2009 - 8:05 PMLOL your comment caused some incontinence, damn you. ;) -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Sat, June 6, 2009 - 8:09 PMOh - I forgot to tell you -- I have a middle name. It's Smartass. :-)
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Sun, June 7, 2009 - 3:40 PM...coagulation... -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Mon, June 8, 2009 - 12:30 PMluxuriate
languish -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Mon, June 8, 2009 - 7:03 PMOooo. Languish is one of those words that just ooooooooozes out.... -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Tue, June 9, 2009 - 1:29 PMI dunno. After hearing 40 very erudite time-pressed 15-minute papers at a conference last week, I'm not so sure there's any word that can't be rushed. -
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Re: curl: you cant rush it...
Tue, June 9, 2009 - 10:15 PMhah! i suppose it does depend on your mood... but there are definitely some words whose order of letters just make it impossible to pronounce them quickly (if you're reading them out loud, of course).
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