some deleted user
replying on Unclean by Dovina
16 Jun 2005, 4:40 PM
Not incorrect phrasing; incorrect quoting. Like that even more.
Awwww. Thanks... From what I can tell, you're opinion is held very highly here, so I consider your... word, a great complement.
some deleted user
on A love apple's just a tomato (edit of "Uprooting") by fevriere
16 Jun 2005, 4:36 PM
Brackets are irritating, last two lines are delightful.
Please see zodiacâs explanation below on how different Islamic culture is from Mohammedâs teaching. We are dealing with a male-centered society where women are dirt!
I have looked at your suggested line edits and, while I find no overt grammatical errors or ugly structure, your opinion on this is as good as mine. Your changes would simplify the reading, making it more like an essay, less like a poem.
Your point about trying to make Allah better by casting the woman out would be a good point if that were what I meant. (Itâs the same point zodiac makes below.) The fact that both of you took it that way means that I might want to rephrase. Surely, the husband did not think Allah needs improvement. He probably thought that anything done to respect or adore Allah would be a good thing â âfor Allahâs good.â I think Iâll change the last line to âto cast her out in Allahâs name.â
A interesting thing about both Islam and Christianity is that the founderâs teachings have little impact the practices of those religions. Some of the churches are beginning to see that Jesusâ teachings actually have value as they are written, and some of the Islamic teachers are beginning to do the same with Mohammedâs words.
bitches is the right word. More than one bitch in this brew. maybe bitches'?
Good!
"impeccable mess" says a lot. The rest of the poem wanders.
The first verse makes a clever point, but could do so in half the words. Lines 3-5 are almost repeats.
Verse 2 is good up to "tryingto" and "bitches (bitch's) brew"
Although the story was told as true, I suspect that the teller may have exaggerated the part about making her look like sheâs been robbed. I think, from what you say and what I have read about Islamic societies, (and Iâm talking about strict Islam like it was in Afghanistan before the war), that the robbed-woman image would not pass. Iâll change the poem to have her wounded as if from an accident of some kind.
I donât know why you laugh at âdisgraceâ in Stanza 2. Humiliation and a feeling of being disgraced are usual parts of rape-trauma. I was pointing out that for this woman those feelings are a far lesser concern that her husbandâs discovery that sheâd been raped.
See my answer above for "cast her out for Allah's good"
inhibitions instead of inabitions.. because inabitions is not a word. a great word instead of inabitions would be inanitions.
inanitions means exhaustion, as from lack of nourishment or vitality. This would make the next line about starving flow.
sorry.. just meant that I like those lines.
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp
Thank you good sir. It does require an additional s.
Yep, that's what it says.
Frost in his belly
fire in his heart
paradigm best explains you?
A pattern or model best explains you? huh.. strange. then you say you are outside of the box. cognitively dissonant. hmm.
it rhymes, so it must be true.
A bit o' depression, eh?