[HPFGU-OTChatter] Heart of Hearing

[Sheryll Townsend]

--- Aberforth's Goat <Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com>
wrote:
> David pricked up his ears,
> 
> > You mentioned it and it didn't get through, eh? 
> Could he be
> > pretending it didn't get through?
> 
> Oh dear. Did we have to get onto this topic? <sighs
> & blushes>
> 
> I too have been informed that I suffer from a
> curious and
> unfortunate form of dysacoustia. My syntagmatic
> circuitry seems
> to have trouble processing clauses containing
> morphemes like
> "kln," "vak-," "wsh-," "dish-," or even "kut"
> (generally in
> conjunction with morphemes like "m htdog"). This
> particularly
> pertains to sentences framed in the imperative and
> subjunctive
> moods.
> 
> On the other hand, clauses which prominently employ
> morphemes
> like "book," "thlo-," "bk," "hrr," or "ptter"
> - and any
> clause enunciated within thirty seconds of the
> morpheme "sex" -
> seem to employ a remarkably efficient decoding
> system.
> 
> I've found a simple solution: just join a future
> indicative
> clause containing a combination of "sex" and one of
> the other
> Class B morphemes to a conditional clause containing
> any Class A
> morpheme, and the problem is solved. (A rapid,
> vertical
> oscillation of the eyelashes might help.) I even
> suggested that
> Oliver Sacks might like to write a book about my
> remarkable
> difficulties. My wife said that would be fine,
> assuming it's a
> very big book, and has a hard cover, and she can
> throw it at me.
> 
> Since Susan is normally a pacifist, this puzzled me
> a little.
> 
> Baaaaaa!
> 
> Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray, who is feeling
> rather sexy
> about having just washed all the breakfast and lunch
> dishes, pots
> included, cleaned the stove and wiped off the table.
> Sue gave me
> an odd look and asked whether Mecki would mind
> writing something
> horrible at least four times a week.)
> 
> (If I can keep this rally going, I may soon be
> sitting at the
> computer wearing a bow tie and a large, automatic
> pistol tucked
> in the strings of frilly apron: the image of the
> postmodern
> hunk.)

Oh my, you cracked me up there! I must try putting
this theory of yours into practice, though I'll leave
off the 'rapid, vertical oscillation of the
eyelashes', as he's never fallen for that one. :-D

Sheryll, giggling at the 'postmodern hunk' image

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"We need to be united and strong. We'll have losses and scares, sure. And you'll be there for each other, helping each other through the bad times."
 blpurdom - Harry Potter and the Psychic Serpent, Chapter 26

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