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Comment author: lsparrish 13 July 2010 02:25:46AM 3 points [-]

I like. Rhymes with sparkles.

Comment author: thomblake 13 July 2010 03:23:28PM 7 points [-]

I'm in favor of this obviously wrong use of 'rhyme'.

Comment author: ata 14 July 2010 09:28:01PM *  5 points [-]

It's a conceptual rhyme.

Here's a limerick following the same principle. (I think I read it in Metamagical Themas; not sure if Hofstadter was the original author.)

There once was a man from St. Bees
Who was stung on the arm by a wasp
When asked "Does it hurt?"
He replied "Just a bit —
I'm so glad that it wasn't a hornet."

Comment author: Blueberry 14 July 2010 09:48:09PM 1 point [-]

It's usually attributed to W. S. Gilbert (as in Gilbert and Sullivan).

Comment author: Blueberry 13 July 2010 08:22:43PM *  2 points [-]

It's more allegorical than wrong.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."

-- Unknown (though attributed without source to Mark Twain)

Comment author: Alicorn 13 July 2010 02:31:25AM 2 points [-]

Huh? "Luminosity" doesn't rhyme with "sparkles".

Comment author: lsparrish 13 July 2010 02:38:15AM 2 points [-]

"Rhyme" was the wrong word, but I don't know what the right one is. Anyone?

Comment author: Cyan 13 July 2010 02:51:54AM 3 points [-]

"Allude", perhaps?

Comment author: lsparrish 13 July 2010 02:56:08AM 2 points [-]

Close enough :)

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