Thanks for keeping the tone dense and crunchy and apologies for my self-indulgent aspie tangent-skewing. That which is imbued with inculcatory Groupthink bullshit (like Homer)and helps to form the structure of the culture seems to create its own context, sprawling a kind of extended phenotype across space and time, becoming in the process a kind of unstampoutable Darwinian Demon. Maybe the mnemonic thing is also selected for but it smells like an epiphenomenon.Р”Р„t its most basic level poetry is a manipulation of our inherited proclivities to enjoy certain sound structures (possibly derived from baby talk). Maybe the aesthetically pleasing devices of poetic language are archaic and derived from language play only later to be co-opted as mnemonic devices due to their inherently delicious quality. There is a theory out there that music predated abstract language as a device signalling individual creative capacity and/or a means of communal aesthetic experience for group bonding. I was in a rush to get to work and typing nonsense.

Thus a change from the /o/ of mo would break the front-to-back vowel progression and the end-ryhme pattern, and a change from mo to a two-syllable word would take the stress off the rhyme sound'Р”В«ah! By this I mean this post is interesting and am not saying I am as usual interesting. The multiple constraints outlined in Chapter 5 are at work here, resulting in many sounds being overdetermined. The whole line can change - for instance, to the Scottish version Eena, deena, dina, do, noted later in the chapter - but any single change reduces a sound-pattern repetition. Thus there is not a phoneme or even a distictive feature that can change without breaking some pattern. This change from the two-syllable pattern adds to the closure of the piece (Smith, 1968) and emphasizes the end and the rhyme scheme by putting a stress on the last word. The whole line repeats as the last line, where the one sungle-syllable word, mo, coincides with the person who is chosen. The remaining sound, /n/, repeats in the same location in three words. Ennie, meenie and miney rhyme with a sound that repeats as the first vowel of eenie and meenie. As noted, eenie is part of meenie, and there is a front-to-back vowel progression for the middle words. It has only sound pattern, not meaning, but sound pattern is enough. To be convinced of this, it is only neccessary to try to find, for each word in the two rhymes, a word that fits as well as the original.Р”В¬onsider the first line of Eenie Meenie again. Changing words while maintaining both the meaning and the poetic devices is even more difficult. It could even be argued that the /m/ sound is used because it is the easiest for a child to make.Р”В¬hanging words without reducing the amount and quality of the poetic device is not easy. Together these first two words of the first line have four repetitions of the sound ee. This is a sophisticated poetic device used by Jakobson (1960) in relation to the political slogan I like Ike, used by Eisenhower in his presidental campaign. In addition, the first word, eenie, is part of the second word, meenie.

Therefore meenie, miney mo sounds better than miney, meenie, mo, and the order is unlikely to change. For instance, the first line of Eenie Meenie contains vowels that progress from front to back (as in the fee, fi fo of fee, fi, fo, fum or in ee, eye, ee eye, oh of Old McDonald Had a Farm). THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE EBOOK AVAILABLE INSTANTLY.'More suble poetics also exist. Many of the songs featured also include links to the Mama Lisa website, where you can find recordings, videos and sheet music. The memories of childhood touch us forever! What makes the book really special is the many comments from Mama LisaРІР‚в„ўs correspondents who have shared stories and memories from their own lives. The songs are given in the original languages and with English translations. The second part presents beloved traditions and songs from many different nations. The history and meaning of these holidays is discussed, often with examples of traditional songs. The first part of the book covers some of the traditions that take place on days other than Christmas itself, like St. So Christmas is celebrated like a giant outdoor block party! Eeny, meeny, miny, mo is the first line of a counting rhyme, used by children to decide who goes first in a game or who is the team captain or who is it. How in Colombia, in the Southern Hemisphere, itРІР‚в„ўs usually warm in December.

ThatРІР‚в„ўs a fun way to get children to help with the post-holiday clean-up!

How Scandinavians mark the end of the season by РІР‚СљplunderingРІР‚Сњ the Christmas Tree on St.How in Italy itРІР‚в„ўs not Santa Claus who gives gifts to all the children.Mama LisaРІР‚в„ўs Christmas Around The World is a celebration of the diversity and love with which many different cultures mark this joyful time of year. People everywhere love Christmas РІР‚вЂњ but we donРІР‚в„ўt all celebrate it the same way.

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