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Silliness: "One Pique" (or, Fun with Homophones and other Tricky Words in Fanfic)

Apr 26, 2005 10:39

Belated archive post for a piece originally written for the Fandom Aid project.

Title: "One Pique"
Summary: A pan-fannish guide to homonyms and other frequently misused words...in filk format. ;-)
Notes: To the tune of "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies. Scansion follows the (often torturous) original as closely as possible: only a few syllables have ( Read more... )

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sansenmage April 27 2005, 00:54:23 UTC

I could deconstruct this to explain each portion that entertained my mind most, but I will suffice by squeeing that this is genius!

nindulgence April 27 2005, 16:57:00 UTC

Yay for squee!--and thanks!

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sjkasabi April 27 2005, 11:21:36 UTC

Hee! Didactic filk. Very cute.

(And hopefully so useful, in future!)

nindulgence April 27 2005, 17:12:10 UTC

I try to keep my inner pedant on a short leash most of the time, but she does like being let out to play occasionally. :-)

(And hopefully so useful, in future!)

Really? You know, yours is one of those LJs in which I can't recall ever seeing a vocab mixup. Glad you enjoyed, though!

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lasultrix April 27 2005, 21:04:55 UTC

Oh, Nin, Nin. *hugs you tight* I feel I don't have to rant for several more years, because you put it all so condensed and rhymefully.

nindulgence April 28 2005, 18:07:08 UTC

*hugs you back* LJ's a place of eternal frustration for the grammar-and-spelling sticklers amongst us, isn't it? ;-) I tried to include all the most frequent offenders here--but, of course, in the week after first posting this, I kept coming across ones I'd missed (e.g. the dreaded loath/loathe). Ah, well.

Thanks for reading!

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lasultrix April 28 2005, 21:57:33 UTC

Ah, probably inevitable. It was constrained by the song length, after all. Though I've actually never seen flaunt and flout being mixed up before. Which one tends to replace which? I'm guessing rules are 'flaunted' rather than flesh 'flouted'.

My personal bugbear that you did get down is 'discrete'. Oh, my poor little word. I'm sorry that when I got a book entitled Discrete Mathematics at the age of 16 I didn't yet know what you meant.

nindulgence April 29 2005, 13:23:48 UTC

Which one tends to replace which? I'm guessing rules are 'flaunted' rather than flesh 'flouted'.

Yes, "flaunt" tends to replace "flout" rather than the other way around.

My personal bugbear that you did get down is 'discrete'. Oh, my poor little word.

Oh my, yes--and that's one of those confusions that can result in rather inappropriate imagery, too. ;-)

My own greatest pet peeve at the moment--because it suddenly seems to be everywhere and I can't figure out when or how it became so pervasive--is the use of "there is" (or more usually, "there's") to refer to a plural subject. Ack! Whatever happened to "there are"? Did society just decide to stop bothering with subject-verb agreement on this point and I somehow missed the meeting? *grumble*

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rosiespark April 29 2005, 08:09:01 UTC

Bravo! ::applauds wildly and joyfully::

nindulgence April 29 2005, 12:40:40 UTC

Thank you!

(And hello there, fellow compulsive editor of menus! *g*)

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rosiespark April 29 2005, 13:56:04 UTC

Hee! Am feeling moved to add "compulsive editing of menus" as an lj interest.

I can lay claim to having proofread a restaurant menu - just the one, unfortunately. And very satisfying it was, too. *g*

hotels_inthesea January 28 2006, 07:50:56 UTC

Yes, i am a creepy journal stalker.

And yes, this made me pull some kind of muscle in my stomach from trying to swallow my giggling. Of course i had to sing the whole thing to myself internally...and as soon as the Family is out of the house, i'm gonna practise aloud!

And i'm pretty sure that the only one i'm guilty of is the discrete-discreet conundrum...

The final line made me snort painfully, also. In case you were interested.

Can i ask, though, how long did this take you to devise?

nindulgence January 31 2006, 20:40:19 UTC

Yes, i am a creepy journal stalker.

Hee! Oh, not at all--it makes my day that you found this and enjoyed it!

Can i ask, though, how long did this take you to devise?

This was actually one of the toughest formal challenges I've ever set myself: the rhythm and rhyme-scheme of the original are so complex, and I needed to fit a homophone- or other confused-word-pairing into at least every four lines, while trying to make everything as amusing as possible, in as many fandoms as I could squeeze in. If I recall correctly, I did it in small snatches of time over a couple of weeks or so...and it was gruelling. ;-)

So I truly, madly, deeply mean it when I say...thank you so much for reading, and for your comments!

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