Since 2016 Giorgio Coniglio, registered pseudonym and editor-in-chief, has been bundling collections of POETRY, WORDPLAY and PHOTOGRAPHY, seasoned with humour and parody, with the sole aim of entertaining YOU with presentations at the rate of 4 times per month. The related blog "DAILY ILLUSTRATED NONSENSE" sends out items from these collections in somewhat random order one-at-a-time.
Thursday 20 October 2022
Saturday 15 October 2022
A Different Angle: POETS' CORNER, part #2
This post is a continuation of a collection of verses as initiated on Jul 15, 2021.
prior poetic posts (part #1)
addiction to limerick writing
authorly skill
blogosphere
bold-faced / bald-faced
cans and can'ts (argumentively)
collaboration
creative writing (decompose)
depressed limericist
CURRENT CONTENTS:
editorial state: "Held"
(The poet's) Family
Free verse
Gender-neutral language
Inventiveness (palinkus)
The problem of scansion
The philosophy of limericks
Rhotic-poet school
(for continuation, see the link below)
Authors' Note: Avoidance of discriminatory gender-bias in language is an unassailable aim.
In the medical field, there are many terms which are problematic due to syllables that in written or spoken form make them seem suspect for such bias. Usually, however, this 'problem' is happenstance based on the incorporation of Greek root-words. Sometimes the level of comedy is reached, as in the near-homonym for the male possessive form in the term HYSterectomy' (surgical removal of the uterus). Other medical and non-medical terms with hidden gender-related messages as in the above verses are indicated by font colour.
OVERLAPPING THEMES:
To access more of this poetic cornucopia, you can proceed onward to the collection 'Poets' Corner #3' (February 2023, 2+ poems) ...
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Monday 10 October 2022
Grandpa Greg's Advanced Grammar: OBJECTIONABLE ADJECTIVES
CURRENT CONTENTS:
Efficacious
Flaccid
Fulsome
Forced (bulbs)
Estival and Hibernal
Histonomic
Histonomic
Floccular
Horrible
Authors' Note: Around the globe, hundreds of thousands of doctors have learned the microscopic appearance and function of tissues early in medical school through the study of histology. (The corresponding adjectival forms are histologic or histological.)
The role of histonomy, if any, as well as that of its adjectival derivatives, is considerably less certain.
Authors' Note: The author disavows overly blunt speech and writing, but finds the tendency to embellish disconcerting. Efficacious seems to be used disproportionately when effective or efficient would do nicely. Other words with inflated frequency of usage include symptomatology, methodology and, yes, even usage.
Authors' Note: Pretentiousness may be at work when the word fulsome is (ab)used by a writer or speaker who feels that full is not sufficiently impressive.
Authors' Note: In English there are fortunately many nouns that we can use as adjectives when the situation demands. In the opinion of this author, summer (adj.) and winter (adj.) are less cumbersome descriptors than estival and hibernal, despite the opinion of some lexicographers.
withdrawn from OEDILF, June 2023
The role of histonomy, if any, as well as that of its adjectival derivatives, is considerably less certain.
Authors' Note:
ovine: adjective pertaining to sheep
ovular: adjective pertaining to egg
ovular: adjective pertaining to egg
A broad spectrum of adjectives, many abstruse and pedantic, are based on Latin roots. A few of these, like bovine and regular, have been fully adopted into modern speech patterns. Others, such as the pair ovine and ovular, are a source of confusion. A minority, including the relatively obscure floccular, do rhyme with each other, providing a benefit only to poets. Is floccular snow falling? The author finds that use flaky.
Authors' Note: Horrible (like its close cousins terrible and frightful) has become a difficult term to define. Originally meaning full of horror, or capable of engendering horror, it can now be applied in two opposing directions.
This poem happens to fit fairly well with the scansion for a well-known song. So if you go back to the version on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (click HERE), you can see our suggestions for singing the lyrics.
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Wednesday 5 October 2022
American Satire: PROLONGATION #1
EXPLANATION:
This post provides a follow-up to
"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #1" (Note that this first collection of poems gives helpful suggestions on how to SING these intriguing lyrics.)
"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #2"
"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #3"
"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #4"
and "AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #5"
CURRENT CONTENTS (prolongation, #1)
Archival
Classified (Espionage Act)
Criminal lying
Deceit, social
Deserved (schadenfreude)
FBIer
Felony
Gov by dopes
(for continuation, see the link below)
Authors' Note:
oy gevalt (oy-guh-VULT): phrase borrowed from Yiddish; an exclamation expressing shock, surprise or disapproval
schadenfreude (SHA-den-froi-duh, or as here, sha-den-FROI-duh): loanword from German; taking delight in others' misfortune
Author's Note: FBIer is a term that is occasionally used to denote an employee of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The search in question in the above verse was carried out by warrant after a federal judge had been persuaded that a crime hae been committed in the premises, in this case a south Florida golf-club. Apparently, as subsequently shown, negotiations for the return of the unlawfully sequestered documents had gone on for months, and a subpoena had been issued. (See our verse 'Classified' above.')
Author's Note: The above verse could be seen as a companion piece to the author's 'felon'. Check that one out HERE.
MORE VERSES ON THIS TOPICWe suspect that many readers have come to enjoy these newsworthy comments on the US political scene. So, at great effort and expense, we have prepared another collection of politically-tinged verses for you to enjoy. Click HERE!
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