Asoninity
Title: Asoninity
Fandom: dueSouth
Characters: Fraser, RayV
Time Frame: pre-season three
Spoilers: none
Synopsis: Ray thinks Fraser brims with asonace. Fraser thinks Ray needs an English lesson.
Word Count: 424
Rating: G
Disclaimer: dueSouth and the characters and settings therein are the property of Paul Haggis, not me, and are used here entirely without permission but entirely with respect. This is for love, not for money.
Author's Notes: Writen for the Vocabulary Drabble meme, for nakeisha for the word "Assonance"
Ray demonstrated exactly how frustrated he was with his frickin' partner, his frickin' partner's frickin' wolf, the frickin' day they were having, and the whole frickin' universe in general by actually kicking the side of his beloved car.
"Honest to God, Benny, you can be so asanine sometimes! You...." he waved his hands in the air, frustratedly trying to sum up Fraser's irritating qualities in vivid hand motions. "You, you, you, you brim with asonance!"
Fraser bit down very hard on the inside of his lip, looked down quickly, and coughed. Exploding in laughter at Ray was not going to help. "Ah, I feel you should know that word doesn't mean what you think it does, Ray," Fraser said when he'd finally recovered.
"See, there you go being asanine! Instead of actually defending yourself with a decent argument, you go picking on my grammer." Ray stormed off a few feet, then paused, turned around and walked back to Fraser.
"...it doesn't mean anything dirty, does it?" he asked Fraser, his features mingled between trepedation and titilation.
Fraser blinked. "Uh, no, Ray, not even in a highly metaphorical sense."
"Oh," Ray said, torn between releif and dissapointment. His head cocked to the side. "Then what does it mean?"
Fraser shrugged and replied gamely "It refers to the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words, as in the sentance 'the cat ran at the platform dramatically' - none of the words actually rhyme, as the surrounding consonants don't match, but..."
Ray waved his hand dismisively in front of Fraser's face to shut him up. "Okay, okay, okay, I get the idea. In that case I don't take it back - you do brim with assonance, wordy paisan like you, as well as... asaninity?" he looked up at Fraser questioningly, who frowed thoughtfully.
"I don't beleive there is a qualitatively nominative form of 'asanine', Ray."
"Well, there ought to be, 'cause you brim with it. To overflowing." Ray started walking again, and Fraser followed him untill Ray suddenly stopped dead in his tracks, causing Deifenbaker to run over his feet. He turned to Fraser and asked "Brim is a word, right?"
Fraser fought a smile. "Yes Ray, brim is a word."
Ray narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "And it means what I think it does, right?"
Fraser nodded. "Yes Ray - if I'm understadnding your context correctly - it does."
Ray jerked his head sharply in agreement, satisfied. "Okay good. Enough English lesson, or Canadian lesson, whatever, let's go bag a scumbag."
"Absolutely, Ray."
Just doing a bit of 'spring' - ha ha - cleaning.
Fandom: dueSouth
Characters: Fraser, RayV
Time Frame: pre-season three
Spoilers: none
Synopsis: Ray thinks Fraser brims with asonace. Fraser thinks Ray needs an English lesson.
Word Count: 424
Rating: G
Disclaimer: dueSouth and the characters and settings therein are the property of Paul Haggis, not me, and are used here entirely without permission but entirely with respect. This is for love, not for money.
Author's Notes: Writen for the Vocabulary Drabble meme, for nakeisha for the word "Assonance"
Ray demonstrated exactly how frustrated he was with his frickin' partner, his frickin' partner's frickin' wolf, the frickin' day they were having, and the whole frickin' universe in general by actually kicking the side of his beloved car.
"Honest to God, Benny, you can be so asanine sometimes! You...." he waved his hands in the air, frustratedly trying to sum up Fraser's irritating qualities in vivid hand motions. "You, you, you, you brim with asonance!"
Fraser bit down very hard on the inside of his lip, looked down quickly, and coughed. Exploding in laughter at Ray was not going to help. "Ah, I feel you should know that word doesn't mean what you think it does, Ray," Fraser said when he'd finally recovered.
"See, there you go being asanine! Instead of actually defending yourself with a decent argument, you go picking on my grammer." Ray stormed off a few feet, then paused, turned around and walked back to Fraser.
"...it doesn't mean anything dirty, does it?" he asked Fraser, his features mingled between trepedation and titilation.
Fraser blinked. "Uh, no, Ray, not even in a highly metaphorical sense."
"Oh," Ray said, torn between releif and dissapointment. His head cocked to the side. "Then what does it mean?"
Fraser shrugged and replied gamely "It refers to the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words, as in the sentance 'the cat ran at the platform dramatically' - none of the words actually rhyme, as the surrounding consonants don't match, but..."
Ray waved his hand dismisively in front of Fraser's face to shut him up. "Okay, okay, okay, I get the idea. In that case I don't take it back - you do brim with assonance, wordy paisan like you, as well as... asaninity?" he looked up at Fraser questioningly, who frowed thoughtfully.
"I don't beleive there is a qualitatively nominative form of 'asanine', Ray."
"Well, there ought to be, 'cause you brim with it. To overflowing." Ray started walking again, and Fraser followed him untill Ray suddenly stopped dead in his tracks, causing Deifenbaker to run over his feet. He turned to Fraser and asked "Brim is a word, right?"
Fraser fought a smile. "Yes Ray, brim is a word."
Ray narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "And it means what I think it does, right?"
Fraser nodded. "Yes Ray - if I'm understadnding your context correctly - it does."
Ray jerked his head sharply in agreement, satisfied. "Okay good. Enough English lesson, or Canadian lesson, whatever, let's go bag a scumbag."
"Absolutely, Ray."
Just doing a bit of 'spring' - ha ha - cleaning.