Reducing Needless Syllables

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Reducing Needless Syllables

Essorant
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since 2002-08-10

Posts 4769
Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada

0 posted 2003-06-12 12:47 PM

Instead of:




Conflagration         flagrance
hospitality           hospitage 
inclination           inclinement
Preparation           preparement or preparance   
declaration           declarement or declarance
population            populance
Immigration           Immigrance
vicious               viced
municipality          municipage
uninhabited           unhabited
civilization          civilizement
reality               realness
recommendation        recommendment, recommendance
superfluity           surfluence
ability               ableness
unequivocal           univocal

Just trying to waste less breath! Feel free to add to the list

[This message has been edited by Essorant (06-12-2003 12:51 AM).]

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2003-06-12 02:51 AM

I'll keep the list in mind (trusting you in definition)

But whichever list I would choose from would be entirely dependant on the meter I needed to complete the thought (hopefully with some grace)

I take complete advantage of "poetic license".

I find articles completely dispensible, and punctuation can serve quite nicely for a beat of meter at times.

I really DO make it up as I go along.

Local Parasite

Member Elite

since 2001-11-05

Posts 2527
Transylconia, Winnipeg

2 posted 2003-06-12 12:56 PM

I once got busted by a teacher for saying "impliment" instead of "implication." So I know where you're coming from, man...

Jamie
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since 2000-06-26

Posts 3168
Blue Heaven

3 posted 2003-06-20 01:00 AM

We mastered the art of syllable dropping generations ago here in the south.

There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
byron

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