You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I don't know how to pronounce any of these names. I'm using C. H. Brewitt-Taylor's translation.
How the heck do I pronounce, "Ts'ao Ts'ao"?
I know it's not At-tissapost-rough-ee-ay-oh At-tissapost-rough-ee-ay-oh.
You don't pronounce the apostrophe as "apostrophe". "ts" is probably not pronounce "at-tiss", it's probably more like "tsunami", which I have no idea in heck how you're supposed to pronounce without a vowel in front of the t (other people can make that sound, but I just have never been able to figure it out). And "ao" is probably not pronounced by saying the names of the letters "a" and "o".
And then Liu P'ei is like, "YOu know what? I need to find a crazy hermit to tell me what to do because magic and stuffs and oh hai random hermit do you want to talk in metaphor".
Seriously, I hate these mystic hermits.
at some point you'd think they'd be like "hey remember [some equivalent to oedipus rex], maybe crazy mystics is a bad idea" but nope. fucking mystic hermits ruin everything
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
(Voiceover Lady voice) Next stop: Bubs' Concession Stand.
I don't know how to pronounce any of these names. I'm using C. H. Brewitt-Taylor's translation.
How the heck do I pronounce, "Ts'ao Ts'ao"?
I know it's not At-tissapost-rough-ee-ay-oh At-tissapost-rough-ee-ay-oh.
You don't pronounce the apostrophe as "apostrophe". "ts" is probably not pronounce "at-tiss", it's probably more like "tsunami", which I have no idea in heck how you're supposed to pronounce without a vowel in front of the t (other people can make that sound, but I just have never been able to figure it out). And "ao" is probably not pronounced by saying the names of the letters "a" and "o".
The apostrophe in Wade-Giles indicates aspiration, which is an audible release of breath, like in most unvoiced consonants at the beginning of words in English. Ts'ao is just "tsow," like how chow is really pronounced "tshow." In Pinyin, it's Cao, which actually makes sense: It's less "shhh"-y than ch, so there's no h.
Practice: Make a t and breath out sharply. Keep that breath going under your teeth. You have just made a ts. Alternately: Say "that sounds" and then shift the emphasis so that it goes from "that" as a syllable to "tha-" and finishes "-tsounds."
Unless you have a lisp or some other complication, which there is no shame in, but can impact your pronunciation of those sorts of sounds.
Took me a long time to say the S sound. Like, I was an embarrassing number of years old (all I'll say is that it was even and one digit). Longer to say Z and Sh.
Still revert to TH when startled, upset, surprised, or composure shattered.
Took me a long time to say the S sound. Like, I was an embarrassing number of years old (all I'll say is that it was even and one digit). Longer to say Z and Sh.
Still revert to the when startled, upset, surprised, or composure shattered.
OK, this makes a lot of sense. I am sorry to press you on that.
Try practising those two things I told you about. I think it will help, but if you still can't get the hang of it, it's no big deal.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
HEY ALIROZ
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(I linked a low-res version for your sake, but if you think your computer can handle it the full thing is here)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I like how there's at least two Centralia Imis: The Royal Cow and the Royal Librarian
Granted, there are at least three Central Avenues and two Anonuses as well, so it's not like there's any limit here
it would be like the "librarian's quarters" or something
seems good to me
Seems good to me, too.
Maybe a private collection within the greater collection. My own little two-floor annex, like that one sheet music collection in the central library here.
it would be like the "librarian's quarters" or something
seems good to me
Seems good to me, too.
Maybe a private collection within the greater collection. My own little two-floor annex, like that one sheet music collection in the central library here.
I don't celebrate it because I'm usually busy doing other stuff in the month or so leading up to it, and by the time that it comes around, it's so close that it'd be awkward trying to plan anything with anyone.
It's the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's also been 25 years since Billy Joel's Storm Front and "We Didn't Start the Fire" came out. Yes, these two things are linked in my head.
Now I'm remembering all the people back in 1989 complaining about how Storm Front sounded "too 1989" and "not like The Stranger or 52nd Street", because God forbid someone change their style!
I mean, Plastic Surgery Disasters, A Kiss in the Dream House, Violent Femmes and The Jam's last single all came out then, and I think Force the Hand of Chance, Deceit, and Swans and Sonic Youth's débuts all came out around that time.
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Took me a long time to say the S sound. Like, I was an embarrassing number of years old (all I'll say is that it was even and one digit). Longer to say Z and Sh.
Still revert to TH when startled, upset, surprised, or composure shattered.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It's...
IT'S BEAUTIFUUUUUUUUUL!
Gorgeous, wlite, all the adjectives.
(I do appreciate the consideration. Thank you for being understanding.)
I think that would be cool
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
seems good to me
so idiot students wouldn't come around bothering me all the time
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead