****
/i:k/[a tea kettle's whistle
and hiss.
it stops
explodes
lets off steam]
/ɑɢʌ/
[pride sticks in my throat
half-swallowed]
/ʔʌ/
[a quick uh-oh of surprise
or pain]
/ɑɽʌ/
[some days
i am bent
flexed
backwards]
/ɑɬʌ/
[the wind outside brushes against
bare branches]
/əʀʌ/
[a storm builds--
heavy dark
far--
and thunder rolls]
/dɑ/
[what the thunder says]
****
Maybe I'm the only one who finds this concept funny. Whatever its other failings, though, this sort of IPA would make my phonetics assignments way more interesting.
3 comments:
Wow. Um ... freaking brilliant!
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I didn't find it funny--I found it marketable. You should totally send this off.
I'm by no means a linguist, but I thought this was great. I especially appreciated your allusion to one of the better lines from the Waste Land at the end. May he rest in peace.
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