RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] computer haiku

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Funny you should mention this.  Part of my 3rd grader's homework
> this week involves writing haiku.  While he was walking home from
> school today, he was talking about something being "arnge" at which
> point my wife corrected his pronunciation to "orange".  (This is
> looking like a losing battle; we've begun calling his twang the
> 'electable accent'.)
> 
> "Oh, right,"  he replies.  And then with excitement, "Hey wait! That
> means my last haiku will work after all!"  Being a fluent and alas
> native speaker of Ozonics (thanks Matt!), he was left a syllable
> short in one of his verses...  

I'm glad that Ozonics doesn't transfer well over the web. Unlike Ebonics, which seems to predominate many non-tech forums. I must admit that I tend to pronounce it with one syllable also, "ornge", and I can't recall anyone I know pronouncing the "a" in "orange".

> Tonight after the kids went to bed, we discussed the possibility of
> teaching him a second foreign language since English and Ozark only
> take you so far in the world.  Seriously, native speakers of French
> don't seem to be thick on the ground (we both know some French, but
> aren't fluent speakers), but Bosnian, Russian, Korean, and Chinese
> all seem like possibilities given the kids he knows at school.  Are
> there any weekend programs in Columbia in these or any other foreign
> languages?

French as a second language is/was supposedly the best for employment. Of course, my source on that is the same group of geniuses who told me "you can't prepare for college in high school" when I was trying to decide on HS courses. This was back in 95 when I transferred to JC High.

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