Hoarse, four, mourning etc.

[Mark Mandel]

Agreed. Similarly: Last night, as I was singing to myself while washing up
dishes, I noted that one of the rhymes wasn't exact in my dialect -- I
forget just what it was, maybe a "caught/cot" vowel pair -- and it may even
have been in a lyric of my own. But, I reflected, how restricted my
repertoire and writing would be if I insisted that all rhymes be exact!
"Close enough for filk", as we often say with a bit (or more) of
self-mockery. ("What is filk?": http://www.interfilk.org/interfilk/filk.htm)

m a m
http://filk.cracksandshards.com/

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> At 10:01 AM -0400 7/2/10, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >I use "4" for "for" in text-messaging, and AFAIK I don't pronounce them
> >differently, apart from stress-related difference.
>
> Same here (well, same here if I used text messaging), but I suspect
> that even text messagers (as I would also refer to them) who
> distinguish the vowels in question would "forgive" the (relatively
> slender) difference in this context and use the abbreviation.  I
> remember all of us in high school writing things like "2 Good 2 B
> 4-Got-10" without pronouncing "forgotten" like 4-Got-10"
>
> LH
>

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