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Re:English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2... by smitty1e on Sunday March 28, 2021 @06:13AM (#26609185)
English's jumbo vocabulary makes it great for doggerel, because so many ideas can be phrased with multiple rhymes and syllable counts.
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Re:English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2... by ghaff on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:38AM (#26610292)
And punny and other wordplay headlines. For example, I could absolutely see, if there were a politician named Fenwick who was fired, a headline writer doming up with: Fenwick defenestrated.
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