Word: absurdity
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...weeks I have watched the antics of these strange people at Dravrah and have told you of the absurd and puerile things that go on in the name of education. What I have seen convinces me that most of the Satellites do not know what education is. They are told they are getting it, so they believe they are. They think it is the product of a formula which they state as follows...
Said Private Crouch: "Our 'propaganda' consisted largely of letters to a local newspaper correcting absurd misstatements about Russia, such as a story that Trotzky had banished Kremlin,*-the War Minister...
...like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their effect as psychological images. That words can ever be used thus fastidiously is a doubtful hypothesis. Poet Cummings, in his wilder moments, imitates the young...
...kingfisher-blue silk, smoking, with mannered nonchalance, a brown cigaret, was reclining among the pillows of a luxurious seabed. He responded amiably to their questions. Native American music . . . what did they mean by that? Most people, of course, meant the banal, monotonous ki-yiing of the American Indians?an absurd misconception. Indian music came from Asia. It is in no respect native. The music the rhythms of which are implicit in the movement of modern U. S. life has never been written. . . . Will jazz be its medium? . . . Perhaps...
...clearer as is our shorter and better hav; but have will be pronounsd like gave, lave, nave, rave, save, wave. We all know by, my, try, etc. Extended study has proved y the best way to write this sound, so we spel replyd, hyt (for the absurd height), myt. Some spellings move the mirth of novices in fonology, but it makes them think and perhaps inquire and they see that ys is better than ice. Your sample yc would be Ike, as c is only the old round form of k. Practically all eminent skolars in English and editors...