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( Colloquialism Meme )

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The other day in my creative writing class, we were working on poetry, so we did that exercise that all teachers surely have done at one time or another: screw up a classic bit of poetry as simply as possible. Points for only punctuation changes, and for as few words as possible. My favorites (try reading out loud; it sounds more appalling that way):

The Iliad, from one of those long introductory lists that Homer loved to do:
"then Achilles, who we knew"
became
"then Achilles. Who knew?"

and one of mine, from Poe's Annabelle Lee:
"But we loved with a love that was more than love"
became
"But we loved with a love that was more than like"

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( Dark Angel musings )

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ETA: Yet another meme. All memes blamed on courtesy of bexless.

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