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Hello Jack
Thank you.
Is this forum using continental time?
It is not yet midnight in the United Kingdom.
William
Hello Jack,
Here is a limerick in response to your challenge
At his letter the writer surmised
She in France might be surprised
Through the language barrier
By electronic carrier
At the reception end localized
William
jackneve wrote:Please let me start a thread for jokes.
I am sure humour will show its hoary head!
No example here, just a thread titling post
I have just reread it and it is amazingly funny.
Very cleverly done.
William
jackneve wrote:William wrote:The rhyming couplet in the first post in this thread
doesn't rhyme but goes peculiar instead
I know this humour may not please most
But at least there's rhyming in this post
The first post in this thread was mine, prose text just asking for a jokes thread to be allowed.
If it's that post to which William is referring, and I can't see another, I don't take it kindly.
I hope you will never find me guilty of trying to pass off such text as an attempt at a rhyming couplet.
You may have noticed I always try to regularise the no of stresses/feet in each line of a couplet, which more than can be said for your comment!
Wrongly seen as rhyme, first post in this thread,
Rhymes not, William, obvious when read
This humour may not please the most; sublime,
But unlike some, these stanzas all do rhyme.
By me, compressed and tortured to be neat,
At least, contain equality of feet.
Hello Jack
I was not trying to be unkind.
I read the first post in this thread and as I started to read it, it seemed like a rhyming couplet but it was not.
And it made me laugh!
I now know that it was not intended as a rhyming couplet but it just sort of, well, humourously jarred that it wasn't as if it were the unexpected punchline of a joke.
So I wrote a poem that bumped strangely as an attempt at humour.
Please note how it bumped at the word 'peculiar'.
The thread is for jokes.
It just seemed funny to me.
William
jackneve wrote:There was a young man with a goal
To swallow a lexicon whole
To make a translation
For the good of the Nation
That was his uplifting rôle
No names, no pack drill!
Could you possibly consider changimg 'a translation' to 'some translations' please?
Then 'nation' could be changed to 'nations' because it is about communication through the language barrier.
Your use of the word 'nation' reminds me of the font Gentium
https://software.sil.org/fonts/
where the name means 'for the nations'.
Gentium arose out of an M.Sc. project.
The use of the word 'young' is kind.
I remember my personal project of when I was young.
William
The rhyming couplet in the first post in this thread
doesn't rhyme but goes peculiar instead
I know this humour may not please most
But at least there's rhyming in this post
The invitation is a good way into a thread.
Perhaps a new thread in the Serif Lounge specifically about this forum would be a good idea.
William
Can one post a link to a music video in this forum?
Here is one as a test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jVM72GP_a8
William
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