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אברה (wingeater)

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angel feathers require specialized digestive organs (/not a girl/) crow (feathers grey as pissed-in ashes) I have the normal number of limbs for a jew https://wingeater.itch.io/

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 31m

I'm also a tiny baby with Arabic literature so give me like a decade

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 33m

I wonder if @fieldomoss.com knows of contemporary poetry working with the old alliterative forms etc

אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 35m

I am making the argument that the Arabic I have almost none of is not the same language as literary Arabic

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 39m

the language isn't the problem, it's the poetic tradition and its dependence on trends from mainland Europe

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 44m

I said I don't speak standard arabic in a verbal dialect

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 44m

I don't know how you could be offending me when I never rhyme :p but yes alliteration is the heart and soul of English poetry and has just been overrun with trite nonsense in the last half millennium

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 47m

makanhdarsh fus7a

אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 49m

when golden English iambs flow so free
with not a thought or strain to fix their beat
I must conclude the struggle lies with thee
and thy cruel despite of her arthritic feet

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 56m

isn't everything

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 1h

English is beautiful! and if yiddish romanization didn't use English orthography it might be legible

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 1h

beef? mmmm need to go buy some pastrami from the Romanians

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אברה (wingeater) @wingeater.bsky.social · 1h

see this is the turnabout, I read yiddish romanization and have to go into a trance of mentally fixing the spelling to understand anything

which is to say nothing of gritting my teeth through twenty extra syllables implied by using consonants as vowels in ktav asuri lol