Re: Lo! I must engage in contests of verbal dexterity!

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Since basically the only other thing on the front page was a different post also directing out attention to that very comment thread, it's not clear to me why our attention needed redirecting.

Also.

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Well, I think Labs was trying to say that my rhymes--the only ones that weren't all end-rhymed and shit, yo--were essence of honky, and that y'all are honky just by being around me.

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Is it not the case that lots of rap features internal rhyme?

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Really, that should be, "I must needs engage in contests" to be truly, white as the driven snow.

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Matt, I took your comment more or less at random. Really, Ogged's cry for help was the appropriate target.

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3: Indeed it is. I was trying to gently twit the others for not being down with the latest (ca. 1990) flow.

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Wait, let me answer Ben's question bitch-style: I was engaged in what linguist George Lakoff calls a "reframing"...

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