The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100061 Message #2001577
Posted By: Azizi
19-Mar-07 - 08:51 PM
Thread Name: Water Wallflower & Brickwall Waterfall
Subject: RE: Water Wallflower & Brickwall Waterfall
Fwiw, let me mention that almost always post the rhyme examples that I get without making any corrections to typos.
I've been interested to notice that almost all the examples that I receive are written in the essay format that you see in the examples provided above.
This run on essay format seems to be the norm among children/youth who post rhymes or other messages on the Internet. In addition to the essay format note the run on sentences, and the fact that the posters aren't that concerned about punctuation or capitalization- not to mention typos-which I know something about ;O)
I believe that this format is preferred to the poetry format because that is takes tooo long to write and imo, speed is very important when writing on the Internet {for younger folks perhaps more than for us oldsters}.
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Also, notice that there are some standard lines in the examples of "Brickwall Waterfall" that I shared in the previous post.
Some of these floating lines are:
"Peace Punch Captain Crunch/I got something you can't touch.
"Reeses Pieces 7Up/ you mess with me I'll mess you up".
"Bang Bang Choo Choo train/mess with me I'll do my thang"
"Be gone, your breath is too strong/wait come back, I think you need a tic tac/Not one not two but the whole dang pack!