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Calque Ulated Linguistics

"calque ulated linguistics"


Ship!!!

the highest mast 
was said to be
a sky scraper 

as it is
closely 
called 

in Hindi 
a sky

kisser

Categories: linguistics, color,
Form: Free verse

Linguistics 5 Dialectology

Knowledge of this might not be public:
Some Dialects are hyperbolic
While speakers judge it not, feel it not,
Quite sure hearers the raw message got
In Igbo Language Dialects this clear
Like a heaving chest or hands bare:
In her North’s “My Mum is not alive”
And Speaker means “Her mother is sick”
But to Stranger “‘one you can’t revive;
Date of her

Categories: linguistics, education, meaningful, perspective, words,
Form: Rhyme

Linguistics 4 My Tonology Hypothesis 2

Igbo words for the feared mostly high tone
Perfectly  matching what rattles The Bone
Her lexis for Death, Python, Snake - Fire
And it’s like speaker screaming, pitch higher!

So also Poison’s, Madness’ - ‘The Unpleasant’
Anger’s, Bullet’s - one can’t call The Pleasant 
A Language quite tonally consistent 
With ideas that The Pitch makes insistent…

Still stops not here

Categories: linguistics, education, language, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

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Linguistics 3 My Tonology Hypothesis 1

Igbo Sex Words I have observed
Are High-Low Tone steady bearers:
To ‘High-Low’ markedly reserved,
Save in ears of tone-deaf hearers…

All her words for Male Genital
Picked by ears not from hospital
And Females’ one’s ears digital;
To Proof subject in Capital 
As though her sex words tactical
Even word for Scrotal Hernia 
When pronounced and one’s ears are near:
The word in

Categories: linguistics, education, language, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Linguistics 2 My Pauseology Hypothesis

To speeches Pauses lend grave weight:
A passed paused Death Sentence, “Wait! Wait!”
“You-are-already-dead-this-night”
And The Black Hearer goes white!

Always esteemed by oracles,
In speeches welcomed obstacles;
Important in a dreaded shrine,
Her grandeur not failing to shine!
Skeptics now add to her value,
Lots conceding to her, no clue:
“In-three-days-your-lifeless-body.”
And the picture they start to study!

Pauses help to stamp defiance
To convey a self-reliance
“Wonder-I-what-you-can-just

Categories: linguistics, education, language, perspective, words,
Form: Rhyme

Linguistics 1 Full Member

I fully belong to Linguistics, 
Literature for the joy that sticks:
The Sharp Poetry from its Drum Sticks
Writings one does and notes time that ticks…

Wholly I belong to Linguistics,
Though it lacks flattering lipsticks,
Not easy using its walking sticks:
Where you don’t watch and Word itself picks!

My Thesis on Pauseology,
My newer interest Tonology
And begging Dialectology;
Minds have in these

Categories: linguistics, analogy, appreciation, education, language,
Form: Rhyme

Lifes Linguistics

Life’s Linguistics

Music is language 
That speaks 
To us all
It asks
And it tells
Like human 
Bird calls 

Food is our greeter
It says…
Come on in!
It gives
Then it feeds
With warm 
Welcome grins

Art is the glue
That says
We’re all human
It draws us 
All in
While we’re all
Bloomin’

By Bill MacEachern
August 5, 2022

Categories: linguistics, art, food, muse, music,
Form: Rhyme

I Love U - Agnostic Linguistics

I
Language is the water of the universe:
"I love u" is both true and untrue
Just as water kills and saves, freezes and flows
God speaks : "I LOVE" unfolding Creation
We speak: "I LOVE u" and create "the other!"
As with language and knowledge -
"I know" is more true than "I know math or a language."

II
There are waves, but

Categories: linguistics, addiction, angst, beauty, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry

Cunning Linguistics

As you read this poem, I’m mentally undressing you.
Word by word your protests drop to the floor. 
Syllable by syllable I pare you down to honest flesh. 
Utterance by utterance, your secrets are revealed 
Until you’re nude, standing before me 
Natural and unembellished, so you can truly appreciate 
The intense sincerity of my words. 

Then

Categories: linguistics, allegory, sensual, word play,
Form: Blank verse

The Truth, Linguistics, Relativity, and the Doppler Effect

A missed word
An error of syntax
A slip in punctuation

The truth is relative
Your truth is not necessarily mine

Truth told in grief
Truth told in mockery
Does not always remain The Truth

Truth be told
Your truth is not necessarily mine

A breath of gossip
An overheard sentence
The snatched glimpse of a word

Just remember this truth
Your truth is not necessarily mine

(Yes, I'm crap

Categories: linguistics, angst, integrity, jealousy, truth,
Form: Free verse

Tendencies Ossifying Obsequious Linguistics

I 
do 
have a 
Message for
one Harry Manback
it does regard his long Lost Keys
don't Blame Hoffman for his Disposition, you Jerk Off!
You Lied when you said you didn't hold The Grudge as a Reflection of Intolerance
Makes me so Disgustipated, you should Crawl Away
you're a Hooker with a *****
who likes Prision Sex
when Sober
Hush H.
it's 
true

Cold 
and

Categories: linguistics, dark, farewell,
Form: Fibonacci

Formulating Linguistics

In order to form these words,
you must start by being unsure.
from comforting warmth, to a artic discomfort
switching to fire and ice again.
Temperature like a predator
in the Sahara desert dusk.

Sit on your porch at dusk, 
watch the clouds create their words.
Be your linguistic barrier’s predator.
Mentally conjunctions float unsurely 
from a mastermind. Look up again, 
wonder if

Categories: linguistics, introspectionwrite, write,
Form: I do not know?

Equations and Linguistics

The circle

equations of linguistics
lyrical misfits
misinformed lyricists
papering plastifying
blasted through
pronuciation of tempation
fundamental precipitation
recollection
mass integral concentration
reaching the world within
through inoprim
the land of the singer
Pentium meaning
believing in the constellation
major frustration
astral projection
oh let me go to my audition
thank you very much for listening

Categories: linguistics, science, visionary,
Form: Lyric