Thursday, December 18, 2008

Pigeon Wings Against a Red Stop Light Beneath the Freeway Overpass on 53rd

Pigeon is spelled weird. You say it like "pi-gen" or if you're fancy, "pi-jon"; it's all really confusing. Then again, Americanized English is confusing, as are most Americanized things. Of course you have your "real"s and "reel"s, your "your"s and "you're"s, and the ever mistypened (no, that is not a word) "there"s, "their"s, and "they're"s. Then you have slang. Oh, bitter-sweet slang. And idioms, which I love, but usually don't get. Then there's figure of speeches, oxymorons (see above), and accents which are hard to write, read, and just plain understand. Wait, oxymorons are figures of speech. Meh.

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