{"id":746,"date":"2012-01-28T06:17:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nothingtoreadhere.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2012-01-28T06:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T14:17:14","slug":"thats-bullshit-rhyming-edition-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"That’s bullshit: Rhyming edition, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As I typed in the title of this post, I went back into the archives and saw that rhyming had already earned its own “That’s Bullshit” post.\u00a0 So I named this “Part 2,” but it’s not really a sequel.\u00a0 It’s not even a gritty reboot of a franchise, though I do appreciate those.\u00a0 Disirregardless, I shall press on.<\/p>\n

Let’s talk about the word “again.”\u00a0 It rhymes with “ten” and many other common words in this glorious yet frustrating language we call English, right?.\u00a0 Do you know what it doesn’t rhyme with?\u00a0 “Main,” “train,” or “Bahrain.”\u00a0 Yet that rhyme pops up in song lyrics and poems all the time.\u00a0 I get it, it looks like it should rhyme with those words, but here’s the thing: it doesn’t.\u00a0 For too long, I’ve heard lyrics like, “I’m standing in the rain\/And I miss her once again” and just thought to myself, “Oh yeah, we pretend that those words rhyme.”\u00a0 Why do we let that slide?\u00a0 It’s not like the real way we pronounce “again” wouldn’t have any words with which to rhyme and so we give it a free pass and let it feast in the -ain\/-ane category.\u00a0 There are plenty of great words there, but we still just hear that non-rhyme and accept it because we’ve been conditioned to think it’s been granted some kind of rhyming bigamy.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Just because they look like they should rhyme with each other?\u00a0 That’s not a good enough reason.\u00a0 We don’t pretend that “laughter” and “slaughter” rhyme, “rough” and “through,” or “show” and “how,” so what’s so special about “again”?\u00a0 Nothing, and fuck that.\u00a0 When the singer\/writer pronounces the word as “uh-GEN,” then it has to rhyme with the right words.\u00a0 Anything else, and that’s bullshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I typed in the title of this post, I went back into the archives and saw that rhyming had already earned its own “That’s Bullshit” post.\u00a0 So I named this “Part 2,” but it’s not really a sequel.\u00a0 It’s not even a gritty reboot of a franchise, though I do appreciate those.\u00a0 Disirregardless, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[224,20,225],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-again","tag-bullshit","tag-slaughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}