Haiku Assault Discussion

Haiku Assult
Start date: August 22nd
End date: September 19th

The Haiku Assult officialy starts today! Due to the time it take to organize thing, there may not be anything exciting for a little while, however this will prove to be a great battle. If you're participating in this battle, head on over to the battle thread. If you want to make any comments on it, here is the palce to do it!

Here are the threads the battles will be happening in:
candc32 vs Kel-bel heroine

Light Speed vs ChibiAyanami

Cody vs. Margar

Chibi is game for this battle anytime after 1pm EST tomorrow.

Although, I'm willing to concede my place to any one of the lassies who may have volunteered before me, as long as their still willing to participate. I never could find an official list of participants . . . meh.

Oh finally, this thread's up. There was something I wanted to say...

Last time around, words like "sail/sale"... there was some confusion about how many syllables such a word had (one or two, obviously. I was outnumbered in saying two). The argument was basically that some words have a different number of syllables in different accents. Most of the people who said sail only had one syllable disagreed.

I think I now know of a few words which this does apply to, excluding words ending in ale/ail. First example: Mirror (as either mira or meer).

Mirr-or. 2 sylables. The arguments arose when people were using odd annunciations, or lazy ones. Every word in the english language has a set number of syllables. I think dictionary.com tells the number of syllables in a word.

Okay then, try this word:

Buoy.

thats 2 Sabbo

Not always. There are two different ways it can be pronounced (Although this is more of a regional thing rather than an accent thing)

Originally Posted by dictionary.com

bu⋅oy
  /ˈbui, bɔɪ/ [boo-ee, boi]

I've always pronounced is and heard it pronounced "boi". Just sayin'.

Of course, if we were being pedantic we wouldn't be counting syllables but moras.

Or if we were being really pedantic, we'd do it all in Japanese.

(Also, the plural of mora is morae, not moras. Jus' saying.)

"Boi" is a lazy pronounciation which is commonly used. The correct pronounciation is Boo-ee.

Originally Posted by Mattocks

"Boi" is a lazy pronounciation which is commonly used. The correct pronounciation is Boo-ee.

...Try again.

"boi" is the correct pronunciation for places like the UK and Australia, which more often than not follow the British spelling and pronunciation of words. Like I said; it's regional.

\Well that's what I've been told by my english teachers. Despite North Americans utterly butchering the english lan there are actualy a lot of words that we didn't get lazy on.

Although "boi" is a better pronuciation for jokes! What did the catholic priest yell when he fell off the boat?


A: Throw me bouy!

Anyways, let's try to focus on getting things set up first. Then we can masterly debate pronuciation.

Power Shot is capable of haikuing in the Japanese language. This may be in part due to his immense prowess of things.

I'll summon the man squad.

I'm the red ranger!

I'm ready, just give me an opponent and we can sort out a time.

Chibi is also up for Japanese haiku. Just got back from Japan for a year, was semi fluent before going, and now fluent (heavy kansai-ben though).

^^ That would be epic, if we could post haiku in Japanese! Of course, they wouldn't be traditional because the nature of this game would likely make us stray from writing on Nature, but it'd be hella worth it, and fun!

負け犬のPower Shotに必ず勝つわよ！
(Trans: I'll surely win over that loser Power Shot.
Also, if we're going to do it this way, we should include translations for the people who don't speak the lingo.)

Originally Posted by ChibiAyanami

Chibi is also up for Japanese haiku. Just got back from Japan for a year, was semi fluent before going, and now fluent (heavy kansai-ben though).

^^ That would be epic, if we could post haiku in Japanese! Of course, they wouldn't be traditional because the nature of this game would likely make us stray from writing on Nature, but it'd be hella worth it, and fun!

負け犬のPower Shotに必ず勝つわよ！
(Trans: I'll surely win over that loser Power Shot.
Also, if we're going to do it this way, we should include translations for the people who don't speak the lingo.)

While it would likely be interesting for some, I don't think you'll get the chance to do a haiku in Japanese. Not under the pretext of the gender wars, at least. :/

I'm just a backup but school is coming up so it would be best if I stayed out.

Good news everyone!

We finally have our battles set up and ready to go!

candc32 and Kel-bel Heroine will be fighting tomorrow starting at 2:00 PM EST (that's GMT -4).

Light Speed and ChibiAyanami Will be letting their Haikus fly tomorrow starting at 11:00 PM EST.

Finally, our vets from the war last year, Cody and Margar will be going at it on Sat the 19th starting at 12:00 AM. EST

Be sure to check up on these batles. With this event the 2009 Gender Wars come to a close, and it's sure to be and entertaining end!

Woot, I'm getting pumped!

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!