Found Poetry
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ll over the earth
the train will stop here.
I dropped the apple.
The fight was over.
You've all heard of found art, right? Well, this is found poetry. Chris made up these phrases to test a hypothesis* we were arguing as to when we say "thee" and when "thuh," but Kieran and I decided these actually sounded pretty cool in that post-modern, Gertrude Stein nonsense kinda way.
*For those of you interested, my hypothesis was correct: Japanese teachers here teach people to say "thee" if the noun begins with a vowel, i.e. "the apple," else "thuh." I was rather surprised, since for me the difference is entirely based on stress, but we soon realized that for Chris this wasn't the case. So I hypothesized it must be a dialect difference...stress for West U.S., and the above rule for most other dialects. Chris's experiment seems to support this: Taajal (from L.A.) said "thuh" for all of the above, while lines 1 and 3 were "thee" for all others represented: Canada and Ireland namely.
ll over the earth
the train will stop here.
I dropped the apple.
The fight was over.
You've all heard of found art, right? Well, this is found poetry. Chris made up these phrases to test a hypothesis* we were arguing as to when we say "thee" and when "thuh," but Kieran and I decided these actually sounded pretty cool in that post-modern, Gertrude Stein nonsense kinda way.
*For those of you interested, my hypothesis was correct: Japanese teachers here teach people to say "thee" if the noun begins with a vowel, i.e. "the apple," else "thuh." I was rather surprised, since for me the difference is entirely based on stress, but we soon realized that for Chris this wasn't the case. So I hypothesized it must be a dialect difference...stress for West U.S., and the above rule for most other dialects. Chris's experiment seems to support this: Taajal (from L.A.) said "thuh" for all of the above, while lines 1 and 3 were "thee" for all others represented: Canada and Ireland namely.