I mean. Who among us has not tried to rhyme back and Bach at some point? :P
:'D
Now I'm imagining Selena raising her hand and thinking, "Only every German ever?" :PP
-craft/Saxe,
Yeah, this one is pretty iffy.
That one works really well for me, but only because I Anglicize "Saxe" to be "sax" like the instrument, and then it feels like the Sixth/Prince pair I proposed earlier. If I tried doing a "socks" pronunciation, any similarity to "craft" would vanish.
It works because in French it would actually rhyme, no?
Huh. Not for me. For me it works for the same reason "homicide" and "regicides" work: sometimes there's a stray plural at the end, and you gotta do what you gotta do.
-burg/burn
Gotta say this one is not my favorite
That one is me copying the medieval Gutenberg/burn rhyme as closely as I can!
ships/digs
Yeah, idk why this doesn't bother me as much
This works for me the same way my trade/campaign and the medieval pikes/knights (which admittedly is made stronger by Hussites) work.
man/hats,
I... did not realize that man and hats were supposed to rhyme :P
Well, obviously they don't rhyme, much as "Notre Dame" and "Afghanistan" don't rhyme, but what I tried to do there was pick a pair that had approximately the same level of similarity as "Notre Dame" and "Afghanistan". There are quite a few non-rhyming-but-vaguely-similar pairs in the medieval version, like Fechtbuch/Seljuks, which I used as a baseline for the amount of flexibility I allowed myself. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of relying on assonance rather than strict rhymes makes this more of an earworm than pure rhymes would. But that is cog sci speculation. ;)
Finally, I want to point out that for some dialects (mine :P), "Saladin" and "king" not only have a different consonant at the end, but a different vowel, and thus don't even resemble a rhyme. To me it's the equivalent of trying to rhyme "din" and "keep". Like, at that point you've not only abandoned rhyming but also assonance, and are basically just asking me to pretend. :P
And yes, having a minority dialect does mean I'm often annoyed by song rhymes...but it also means I'm extra excited when I find a song that rhymes words that *I* think rhyme. I start going, "See? See! That is a *correct* rhyme! You sing the song of my people!"
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Re: We didn't start the fire, 18th century version
Date: 2024-08-21 06:22 pm (UTC):'D
Now I'm imagining Selena raising her hand and thinking, "Only every German ever?" :PP
-craft/Saxe,
Yeah, this one is pretty iffy.
That one works really well for me, but only because I Anglicize "Saxe" to be "sax" like the instrument, and then it feels like the Sixth/Prince pair I proposed earlier. If I tried doing a "socks" pronunciation, any similarity to "craft" would vanish.
It works because in French it would actually rhyme, no?
Huh. Not for me. For me it works for the same reason "homicide" and "regicides" work: sometimes there's a stray plural at the end, and you gotta do what you gotta do.
-burg/burn
Gotta say this one is not my favorite
That one is me copying the medieval Gutenberg/burn rhyme as closely as I can!
ships/digs
Yeah, idk why this doesn't bother me as much
This works for me the same way my trade/campaign and the medieval pikes/knights (which admittedly is made stronger by Hussites) work.
man/hats,
I... did not realize that man and hats were supposed to rhyme :P
Well, obviously they don't rhyme, much as "Notre Dame" and "Afghanistan" don't rhyme, but what I tried to do there was pick a pair that had approximately the same level of similarity as "Notre Dame" and "Afghanistan". There are quite a few non-rhyming-but-vaguely-similar pairs in the medieval version, like Fechtbuch/Seljuks, which I used as a baseline for the amount of flexibility I allowed myself. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of relying on assonance rather than strict rhymes makes this more of an earworm than pure rhymes would. But that is cog sci speculation. ;)
Finally, I want to point out that for some dialects (mine :P), "Saladin" and "king" not only have a different consonant at the end, but a different vowel, and thus don't even resemble a rhyme. To me it's the equivalent of trying to rhyme "din" and "keep". Like, at that point you've not only abandoned rhyming but also assonance, and are basically just asking me to pretend. :P
And yes, having a minority dialect does mean I'm often annoyed by song rhymes...but it also means I'm extra excited when I find a song that rhymes words that *I* think rhyme. I start going, "See? See! That is a *correct* rhyme! You sing the song of my people!"
:'D
Re: We didn't start the fire, 18th century version
Date: 2024-08-21 06:25 pm (UTC)Back to work...
Re: We didn't start the fire, 18th century version
Date: 2024-08-21 06:28 pm (UTC)