It's almost Valentine's Day!!!!!!! Is your loved one hard of hearing? Maybe she'd appreciate a copy of the love poem I'm writing for the hearing impaired. I'm not finished yet, but here's how it starts. See if you can guess what the poet (me) is saying. I'll give phonetic hints along the way, then print out the whole thing in ordinary script at the end.
Okay, let's do this thing!
(Cough! Cough!)
Oops! Sorry about that.
Okay, here goes......
M...m...
iiiiiiiiiii
luuuuvvv
fur
yuuuuuuu
izzz
like
āā
tikled
thhhh
issss
llllllll..... There, I let that last "L" syllable just roll off my tongue.
The whole thing is "My-love-for-you-is-like-a-tickled-thistle." Tickled thistle...get it?...it's a repetition of the "th" sound. Us poets know about stuff like that.
Notice that I left out harsh, explosive syllables...you know, stuff like....
"PATTERSON'S"
"POOCH!"
Don't ask me how I know to do that. It's a gift I was born with.
