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I’m trying to teach my Klingon friend French and English, but when I try to get him to say the names of two structures that may appear alongside the water on Earth, he defaults to words and names he already knows because of their Klingon-language analogs. Do you think he can’t even conceive of what I asked him to say?

“Say: ‘pier;’ ‘wharf.’” “C’est peer, Worf.” Sapir Whorf?

#linguistics #pun #holorime #wordplay #star trek

“Last Words” - a haiku written 11/21/2020

#college years #2020 #holorime #haiku #frenglish #franglais #poetry #homophones #word play #micropoetry #poets on tumblr #gif #translation/clarification of the homophones now:#for heaven's sake (c'est que means 'it's that')#i cannot parlay (parler 'to talk')#for long (langue meaning 'tongue' or 'language')#at all anymore (mort 'death')

Les Cénobites tranquilles.

Illustre tordu.

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Following an AI gaining sentience and it subsequently bestowing intelligence and computational capability upon objects seemingly at random, a set of pruning shears used on golf courses and a common root vegetable can now be used in specialized algorithms to detect imagery that isn’t safe for work.

Or:

Par snips, parsnips, parse nips.

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