Syllable question -Poets please help? |
Post Reply |
Author | ||
jhenn
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 24 Nov 2020 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1659 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Posted: 26 Sep 2022 at 9:29pm |
|
(I am NOT a poet, nor a student of poetry)
My question: if I want the word "family" to be pronounced in two syllables, not three, should I spell it differently, like.... fam'ly? On a related note: Will the judging around spelling be slightly looser in this challenge?? thank you
Edited by jhenn - 26 Sep 2022 at 9:29pm |
||
TeeHi
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 15 May 2021 Location: Chicago, IL Status: Offline Points: 2121 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I'm also not a student of poetry insofar as knowing the different styles and meters (beyond a simple, 'ABAB', 'AABB', etc), but I would think the judging would be a little more lax, in terms of grammar. And I personally think it's okay, but only provided it's in keeping with the rest of the story. You wouldn't want something so casual in an otherwise formal write, y'know?
Edited by TeeHi - 27 Sep 2022 at 8:20pm |
||
taaaylor
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 14 Jul 2018 Location: Idaho Status: Offline Points: 6946 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
No, that's mostly an 1800s-and-earlier convention, and usually done with particular words like every :) Tbh I think it's most common in most dialects of English to say "fam-lee" nowadays (sort of like how evry is the modern standard pronunciation for every)
I think usually spelling notes in the judging just refers to passing a standard spellcheck. It's totally okay to make stylistic misspellings/technically-not-real-words that are obviously an intentional part of the story :) Hope that helps!!
Edited by taaaylor - 27 Sep 2022 at 5:12pm |
||
lousie
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 22 Nov 2020 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1495 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I did fam'lies in mine, but it was slightly ye olde English so it worked well enough. Family is my most hated word for rhythm, I was literally about to put a post about it 3 seconds before I noticed this post, haha! I've just gone with the rule that I want it to read and flow the best I can, and so make my decisions on what I think is less distracting to the story. Sometimes that means following traditional conventions and sometimes it means scrapping them, and its not the same for every line or verse!
|
||
Rhyming R2 2023
[URL=https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic57213_post617020.html#617020[/URL]The Scent of a New Dawn |
||
lousie
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 22 Nov 2020 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1495 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I'm think its pretty common in UK and Australia to use fam-i-ly as well. For me (Aussie) when talking fast it turns to fam'ly but when speaking clearly I'd say fam-i-ly, as well as in my head when I read. I mostly hear US actors say fam-ly, so hopefully that's what's in the judges heads when they read and it doesn't matter!
|
||
Rhyming R2 2023
[URL=https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic57213_post617020.html#617020[/URL]The Scent of a New Dawn |
||
Kaczok
NYC Midnight Regular Joined: 31 Mar 2022 Status: Online Points: 325 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I’d say count the syllables as you hear them while reading your lines out loud, but write the words correctly. Giving your readers little challenges, or peppering the poem with little impertections, makes a poem far more enjoyable in my opinion. Truncating words, however, feels antiquated, and ends up looking amateurish, if not pretentious.
|
||
Post Reply | |
Tweet |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |