#sillables

[palatinewolfsblog]

The lake at night

The week was long and on Saturday I was still thinking about the challenge of the week: A poem about

that lake at night.

A short poem.

A haiku maybe.

Finally

I went to a sage up on a mountain high

hoping for inspiration.

He listened closely.

Remained silent for a long time and then said:

"An example?

Listen. Learn.

Look at this mountain.

Focus. Breathe.

Then return to your place

in the valley and... "

he stopped speaking.

Looked at me as I took a deep breath.

Irritated. Almost - irate.

"That's not a haiku.

The sillables, the topic.

Are you kidding me?"

He laughed and said.

"But this sure was one.

Great. Guess you learned your lesson?

Have faith in yourself."

[theoriginalmeep]

In the LATAM spanish version of "Deception", to keep the verses sounding similar they translated "deception" as "decepción", but the words are actually false cognates, "decepción" means dissapointment not deceit, so the meaning of the song sliiigthly changes, the context keeps it working tho (more like Jerrica dissapointing Rio with her lies). I personaly would had gone with "engaño" instead, but it's funny to see Jerrica singing her whole life is a dissapointment over and over lol

[forgottenbones]

The fictional martial art named “kosho” in the TV series The Prisoner

read more about it here

[nanananana-chaos]

steve who likes cars a lot when hes young, tinkers with them when tommy gets one for his fifteenth birthday and starts fully dedicating to learn everything about the bimmer he gets for his own birthday. helps eddie out with the van, and mike when he inherits the station wagon, and even wayne on more than a few occasions. becomes mechanic after family video bc its something he always liked and was always good at. his dad HATES it at first but starts respecting it when he learns how good steve is at his job, how well known he is, how respected. they start patching up family ties even if steve is still hesitant towards it.

eddie who got discovered at his job in (insert local supermarket) after he graduates but not bc of his music talent but by how good at numbers he was, got a better job as a junior accountant, and started learning more and more because the pay was also increasing and now he can help out with wayne and then some and money has never came easy to a munson, and this is something he's really good at without much effort

they're together, have been for a little over eleven years now went through a looooot of shit together hiding who they are to each other from most of the world but not all, who've been through the harsh and desperate moments and saw each others ugliest sides and still chose to love and care for each other. were just starting to enjoy their boringly stable life when steve's grandpa dies and leaves him a SUBSTANTIAL amount and then steve just buys out the garage he works at from (one sillable named character) and hires ed to do the numbers for him with him because hes done having to hide his man like that and then they live happily ever after etcetera

[forsaken-headcanons]

Bluudud is the worlds clingiest 14 year old to me. If he likes you trust he is gonna be hangign off your arm. He has never known the concept of personal space. He also does this beacuse he's coldblooded and he's mooching off everyone else's body heat. Weird blue lizard. He has dyselxia. Starts stumbling over his words if they have more than four sillables, and is several years back on his reading. His written grammar is so bad sometimes it looks like he wrote in a different language. Probably gay but he dosen't rlly give a crap about labels he's too busy getting owned on Fortnite. Chronic insomnia, good luck getting him to sleep at a reasonable hour, or to sleep in general. His record is a week without sleeping (followed by going comatose for two days straight) He has most defenetly said at least a slur over xbox vc before. The gamer's rage is real. He felt guilty about it later tho. Anyway Bluudud supremacy he's my favourite character - Catnon

Aww. What a guy.

[cato-of-blamesociety]

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[creative-soul-22]

A German perspective on the presidential debate

Kamala Harris telling Trump he has a hard time processing he in fact lost the 2020 election

3 things immediately caught my attention:

1. Harris was easy to follow, Trump was hard to understand

Trump mumbled words, skipped sillables, it made it hard for me to understand him. He didn't even speak consistently. He started a sentence, stopped halfway in it and started another one instead of finishing it. As if he had forgotten he had started a sentence. He also switched points whilst talking, he started talking about one point then suddenly bring in one or two more points. All in all, it didn't sound like a mentally fit person was talking, most of his sentences didn't even made sense (and all of this doesn't even address what he has said, it's just about how he spoke).

Kamala Harris was easy to understand, she spoke clearly. I could always understand what she meant, she was down to the point, didn't mumble and didn't skip sillables. Her mind is sharp and alerted.

2. Trump's whimpering about America being "a failing nation" sounded awfully familiar

Are you tired of people from conservatives to far-rights whining on about America being a "failing nation"? Well, you're not alone. Same here in Germany. Politicians from Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder to Alice Weidel and Sarah Wagenknecht sound just the same only that they say all of these things in German about Germany.

3. Of course he mentions Viktor Orbán when talking about world leaders that respect him

Donald Trump is a captain obvious. Yes of course he said Orbán respects him yes of course Orbán said Trump needs to be president again. Because Viktor Orbán is the only one of the leaders in the EU that actually likes Donald Trump and thinks he is a good president.

But you need to understand what Trump didn't tell you: Viktor Orbán is considered a dangerous autocrat within the EU. He rules Hungary very autocratic, and I think it was in 2022 when he banned a storybook for children, a fairtyale I think, because it contended queer themes. And that is just one particular incident. He tries to block the European parliament wherever possible, he mocks the EU by flirting with Putin and other dictators. He also whimpers about how Europe and the EU are declining.

Favourite thing in the debate:

Kamala's attitude like:

"[...] for a friendship with what is known to be dictator who would eat you for lunch."

I like her for saying stuff like that cause cmon was there ever another politician saying it that way? Into Trump's face?

I would vote for Kamala Harris for 5 reasons:

- she speaks understably

- she doesn't hallucinate about things

- she laughs and smiles a lot

- I feel way more represented in her family, her roots, her way of talking to people, her way of thinking, etc.

- her attitude

And those are just personal ones. We haven't talked about the political ones.

[qzse-rtv]

Aight guys my hot takes

English is easy but is hell to speak it has horrible intonations and flexes to put on words and sillables in sentences

Spanish sounds hot in songs and shows but when its spoken by normal people it sounds horrendous

German sounds terrible in media bc people make it worse than it actually is, if you take time with it's its pretty nice and irl it kinda has the same tone than french, by that i mean that it's honestly pretty flat and i like this

French of course is a perfect language

[panvnsleake]

Mmsmall

Can yoi ramble un,il i fall alsep

ohh hi tiny nautilus. nautilus. thats a nice name. nauuutilusssss...its nice to drag out sillables. so fuuun!!! yay -🍞

[andorianminingconsortium]

Review of The Wrath Of Khan

(as much spoiler free as I can be)

As you may know, I recently started watching all the old Star Trek movies for the first time. I started with First Contact, per friend's recommendation, then watched the Motion Picture and I'm now watching chronologically. That brings me to Wrath of Khan.

First things first, I really loved it! I think it's my favourite from the ones I've watched so far! The characters were cool! The movie-only characters were cool! They uniforms looked good! Everyone's hair looked good lol

I loved the character Saavik. The fact that this character exists in a movie made so long ago (lol) proves once again how progressive Star Trek is and is a great example of what I love about Star Trek. Also when Kirk is like "you have no problem with self expression" I screeched. That was such a line. Thank you for your support of gender expression, Admiral.

I thought Khan was very well played! (Poor Chekov, man...) Khan was so evil! Great! He had such a clear goal and mindset. Loved that they didn't water him down. Now that I saw the original movie Khan, I realised that Benedict Cumberbatch in the recent movies wasn't just putting up a "slightly weird but cool villain voice". He was mimicking the way the original Khan spoke! And he did it really well! I'm impressed. The almost whispering, drawn out sillables, teeth-clenched talking. Especially Cumberbatch' iconic "I'll walk over your cold corpses" sound so much like the original Khan in my opinion! I just thought it was really neat!

I also liked the parallels between the old and new movie such as Scotty yelling "you'll flood the whole compartment!" In both movies. Great eye for detail from the makers of the new movie!

What really stuck with me was when one of the crewmates died and Scotty came carrying him in and was like "he's the only who stayed at his post" and then the crewmate, with bloody hand, touched the one white part of Kirk's uniform and left a handprint that remained for the next few scenes. That was so good! Such a chilling detail! Beautiful!

I might have forgotten something but these were the things that stuck with me most! I enjoyed it and I might watch it again after I've watched all the other movies.

My ranking so far:

Wrath of Khan - Motion Picture - First Contact

I have also just watched Search for Spock! Will review later :)

Thank you for reading!

[weeklypoetry]

Foscolo, Alla Sera

Forse perché della fatal quïete Tu sei l’immago a me sì cara, vieni, O Sera! E quando ti corteggian liete Le nubi estive e i zeffiri sereni,

E quando dal nevoso aere inquiete Tenebre, e lunghe, all’universo meni, Sempre scendi invocata, e le secrete Vie del mio cor soavemente tieni.

Vagar mi fai co’ miei pensier su l’orme Che vanno al nulla eterno; e intanto fugge Questo reo tempo, e van con lui le torme

Delle cure, onde meco egli si strugge; E mentre io guardo la tua pace, dorme Quello spirto guerrier ch’entro mi rugge.

Poetic translation (pretty accurate):

Perhaps because of that fatal quiet you are the image so dear to me, you come, O Evening! And when happy summer clouds and the gentle Zephyr are your escort, and when from snowy restless air you throw darkness, and long, into the universe, you descend summoned always, and the secret roads of my heart gently hold.

You make me wander with my thoughts on tracks that vanish into eternal nothing; meanwhile flees this cursed time, and with it, the throng

of worries with which it destroys with me itself; and while I gaze on your peace, sleeps that warlike spirit that within me roars.

✦

Foscolo, my dear love - in poetry only. My guy is wonderful when thoroughly confined to his standard eleven sillables, and starts to become obnoxiously verbose in anything longer than that. Hope you'll forgive me for messing up the methrics in traslation; there's not much i can do about language, and i felt like the meaning was better to carry across than the rhythm. It is to be said that his adherence to the standard forms down to the rhyme - precise ABAB ABAB CDC DCD as it's usual for sonnets - really does add something to the poems. The mix of influences coming from both different art currents (neo classicism and romanticism, mainly) and direct cultures (italian, english, greek) comes in through the content as well as the form.

As his poems often do, this one talks of death, and contemplation of nature. A man pained with sorrows - it's Foscolo, so we're mostly looking at political turmoil, but classic romantic anguish and generic nostalgia are not excluded - takes peace in a quiet evening, taking in his own mortality (as it is death, in the end, that takes away everything). Even then, the poet isn't just sad, isn't abandoned to his own feelings: as every Just Soul would, a quiet anger simmers in his veins, waiting for the right moment.

There's something to be said, as always, on the mechanism phylosphy as a whole - even if it doesn't shine in this poem as well as others (go read De Sepolcri right now actually). Nature can be hard and cruel like it can be soft and summery, but it offers to all the peaceful rest of death, returning in Her. Many call it pessimism, but i personally can't see how being a smell little cog in the big machine of nature would be a bad thing - is it so cruel to be a being who's purpose in life is just to live, and be granted peace to any sorrows?

[notapolarbear]

Chibi commission for Sillable!

[princess-of-the-corner]

My idea for AFO's name:

We know that he and Yoichi are twins. I'm not sure if the trend of giving twin children similar names is a thing in Japan, but I'll go with the assumption that it is.

Thus we need a two sillable name that starts with Yo- (与, bestow, gift) where the second syllable fits AFO. If it ends in the letter "i" then better. There is one that I can think of that fits this.

Yoshi (-shi; 師; master, teacher).

This would mean that the man was named Yoshi at a time when Nintendo was still a thing people remembered. No wonder he tried to erase any record of his name.

I'm sure there's someone with that actual name but that's fucking hilarious

Izuku: "Ah yes another thing I inherited from this bastard: being bullied in middle school."

[anglerflsh]

re: your poetry post, can you give some pointers as to where to learn the rhyming patterns in poetry and the like? i only ever see poetry from the ideas/feelings perspective, but ive never learned the logic and structure behind it lol

I've learned most of it from my literature and grammar classes, it's taught in our school since elementary, so I wouldn't know of any books or manuals that talk specifially about it - but I can give you a rundown of how I do it, anon, if it counts for anything lol

Prefacing that this will be starting from italian poetica because that's what I know best: any poem, but specifically the pre-futurism/1910s ones (A Lot) will have some kind of structure aside from just the ryming scheme; The structure I am most familiar with is accentual-sillabic, so for example any single verso will have its stressed syllable in a fixed potision and occasionally a set number of sillables (eg. an endecasillablic metre means a stress on the tenth syllable, usually penultimate, equally to 11 total syllables), but there are also only accentual, or only sillabic verses, common in French poetry (?), all of which count as types of qualitative metre - as well as quantitative metre, which was more widley used in Latin and Greek poetry and which rather based itself on patterns of syllable weight (something that I know little about tbh; I think it's based on the lenght of pronunciation of the actual syllable).

this, of course, goes without even mentioning free-verse structure and less well-known ones.

Going back to the rhyming scheme, that also comes into play with structure in the sense that ... there are just a lot of them to pick from. The classic is the repeated AABB one, where each verse will rhyme with the one underneath (''kissing rhyme'' in italian), or the alterning ABAB, the crossed ABBA, the 'chained' or third rhyme ABA BCB CDC used for terzine, and plenty more! That's not all the ways to classify rhymes of course: you have plain rhyme between words accented on the penultimate syllable, cut rhyme between words accented on the last, sdrucciola with accents on the third-to-last, bisdrucciola on the fourth-to-last... etc etc

Then, of course, come the classifications in stanza lenghts! Groups of three verses are a terzina, well known for being Dante's favourite number (joke inserted to lighten this infodump), groups of four a quatrina, etc -

and depending on the number of single groups and on the type of verses in them, you have further classification as canzone, ode, madrigale, carme, filastrocca, ballata, sonetto... the latter for example is made of fourteen endecasyllabic verses grouped in two quartine, one in the beginning and one in the end, in crossed or alternate rhyme, and two terzine with any kind of rhyme structre.

this of course doesn't touch on the inner things and games of poem structure like the falling rhyme, spaces in between groups, enjambement, alliteration, allegorical figures, anafore, onomatopee, and all that fun stuff! Essentially when you see a poem look for the number of syllables in each verse, where the stressed syllable falls, how the rhymes are put, how many verses are in each stanza and strofa...

[noosphe-re]

syllable (n.)

"vocal sound uttered with a single effort of articulation," late 14c., sillable, from Anglo-French sillable, an alteration of Old French silabe "syllable" (12c., Modern French syllabe), from Latin syllaba, from Greek syllabē "that which is held together; a syllable, several sounds or letters taken together," etymologically "a taking together" of letters.

This is from syllambanein "take or put together, collect, gather," from assimilated form of syn-"together" (see syn-) + stem of lambanein "to take" (see lemma). The unetymological -le apparently is by analogy with participle and principle.

— Etymonline

[lerry-hazel]

And some more PoI ramblings

I guess they expected me to get all soft and sappy over Finch’s bonding roadtrip experience with the Machine. But the only thing it makes me feel is confusion over why he needs to go steal some mega-virus as a last ditch effort? Why hasn’t he been writing one himself, since the moment he realised the enormty of threat Samaritan represents???

Also, he definitely could have said a two-sillable password before being shot. Not that I would want to see Finch killed on the spot, but couldn’t they have knocked him unconcious, or at least covered his mouth?

Furthermore, once you notice it, you really start seeing it everywhere, don’t you:

- John would have died.

- I’m still undecided.

- Root would have gone working for Samaritan!

- Unacceptable! Ok, let’s do it!

This time I’m exaggerating a little, but still.

At least, three cheers to Fusco, the only one to fugure out that, in their line of work, buletproof vest should be worn at all times.

Couldn’t bring myself to rewatch 5x13, but the fic's not done yet, anyway.