Monday, April 16, 2012

Spargle a Spreet

"The English language can be so funny.  Waffle looks like raffle but sounds like awful.  Plough sounds like plow, while slough can sound like sluff.  Stressed spelled backward is dessert; evil spelled backward is live."  - Gayle Brandeis from FRUITFLESH


Mess with sound, syntax, and spelling as you play with words.  Write nouns into verbs and if you must use an adjective, make it ridicule the noun.  Verb up and avoid adverbs at all costs.

Do not make sense.  Make typos.  Use numbers in place of vowels - v4w2ls.

Grab ideas from:     "One gust of wind and Santa becomes Satan. A slip of the pen and pears turn into pearls."  -  Lorrie Moore

What frills you garble in herbrithic time will tungle the brain cells to spreckle.  So, spargle a spreet.




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