I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living

[sovay]

fleurdelis28 said on Facebook, "Today's tongue-twister: 'Proper platypus plural.'"

I said, "'All I want is a proper plural platypus . . .'"

She said, "I think this may need to be a song."

That was on Wednesday.

I walked home tonight from Lexington Center.

By the time I was turning up my street, I had nearly six lines out of ten and all the end-rhymes for the following:

All I want is a proper plural platypus
Keep your platypuses and your platypi
Let the monotreme decrying
Pseudo-Latin multiply in
Graeco-scientific equanimity

All I want is a proper plural platypus
It's that Hellenistic etymology
Disregard hypercorrection
Give a shout-out to inflection
Platypodes are the only things for me!

I need a geekier icon even than Hakkai. I'd have worked in "Ornithorhynchus anatinus," but I couldn't make it scan.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

***APPLAUSE****

Please find a way to share a tune for this so that we really can sing it.

Platypodes forever!

[sovay]

Platypodes forever!

Semper plat!

(I'll sing it for you at Arisia.)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Someone will have to make a recording for me -_-

(work, finances, and reclusive tendencies will be keeping me from Arisia)

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

(I'll sing it for you at Arisia.)

I expect it would be a very big hit in the filk room as well. (says she who is running some part of open filk on Saturday and Sunday nights).

[sovay]

I expect it would be a very big hit in the filk room as well. (says she who is running some part of open filk on Saturday and Sunday nights).

So noted!