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Article #831447

Re: PPB: A July Day / Eben E. Rexford

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From: Michael Pendrago
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:20
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On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 8:03:05 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 7:00:08 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> > Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 3:57:27 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
> > >> On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 7:05:04 PM UTC, George Dance wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> > > > > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> > >>> > > > > A July Day, by Eben E. Rexford
> > >>> > > > > [...]
> > >>> > > > > A glory wraps the hills, and seems
> > >>> > > > > To weave an atmosphere of dreams
> > >>> > > > > [...]
> > >>> > > > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-july-day-eben-e-rexford.html
> > >>> > > > >
> > >>> > > > > Picture: William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Summer at Shinnecock Hills,
> > >>> > > > > 1891. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
> > >>> > > > What a boring, sing-song poem!
> > >>> > > Look who's talking.
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > You and Michael Pendragon specialize in dreary sing-song, second handed rhymes, Nancy Gene.
> > >>> > You defend a poem that you didn't read by attacking Michael's and our poems?
> > >>> Not really.
> >
> > >> You are "not really" defending the poem
> >
> > > That's right, but the poem is just as good or better than the bland sing-song second handed poetry you and Michael Pendragon churn out, Nancy Gene.
> >
> > > HTH and HAND.
> > I found this poem to be quite cogent...
> Good Stephan Pickering homage with "cogent".

How is continuing Pickles' ignorant butchery of the English language an homage?

Pick was an idiot who pretended to be a savant.  What he failed to understand was that using "big words" incorrectly makes you sound like a pretentious, uneducated fool; whereas using common words correctly makes you seem intelligent.



Michael Pendragon
"The call me MISTER WAD!"
-- William Abraham Donkey on his short signoff.

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