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| re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 08:07 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? - showtunetrivia 05:59 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
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| Understood, Laura, but to me, "bromidic" sounds a lot more stilted than "bromide." Plus it's not just that word, it's the combination of stilted language PLUS alliteration PLUS interior rhyming in one sentence that really bothers me: "I'm bromidic and bright as a moon-happy night pourlng light on the dew." | |
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| re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:32 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? - Michael_Portantiere 08:07 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
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| Except, when you look at the entire lyric - verse and refrain - it's full of alliterations and inner rhymes. Lots of both. Along with words like "dither" and "protestations" which also don't feel like everyday vocabulary. |
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| re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 06:12 pm EST 02/23/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? - Chromolume 08:32 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
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| Right, but again, it's the combination of stilted language and alliteration AND interior rhyming IN ONE LINE that makes me think "I'm bromidic and bright as a moon-happy night pouring light on the dew" sounds so obviously "written." "Dither" doesn't strike me as high-flown language at all, and "protestations" only slightly. |
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| re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:39 pm EST 02/23/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? - Michael_Portantiere 06:12 pm EST 02/23/20 | |
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| One other point to consider in context - the other nurses are listening in, and Nellie knows it. The vocab could be part of a deliberate bit of showing off. | |
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| re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 08:14 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? - Michael_Portantiere 08:07 pm EST 02/22/20 | |
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| Aw, come on, I bet Nellie wrote poetry in her girlish youth! (But I agree, it is a bit much...😀) Laura, back to watching baseball (hey, did you guys know Yankees fans used to sing “Of thee I sing, baby!” when the Bambino socked one over the fences? Morrie Ryskind said so.) |
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