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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 14, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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Interestingly, I can read poems in Russian just fine, but to appreciate poetry in English I have to read it out loud, unless it's someone who can write disciplined syllabotonic verse, like Kipling. I still can't stand anything that liberally uses poetic contractions. "For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells." Seriously, John? This is the best you could do? I'd rather rhyme "eye" with "symmetry" than do this.