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>On Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:24:09 -0800 (PST), Gerald Koenig
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>>I'm trying to link these NGL Vector tense pronouns with a catchy tune
>>to shorten the memorization time. So far I have tied them in to "Spring
>>Fever" from the classic musical State Fair.
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>>"I'm starry eyed and vaguely discontented..." 11 sylables.
>> mi  vuwo    za  ha   nigu    kusuzashas      11 sylables.
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Hi, Stephen,

I agree that the zas-has section is a bit of a tongue-twister. The lyric
does help tho as it breaks down as

dis-con-tent-ted; separating the last two syllables.

If anyone has another, better known song, let's hear it.

Jerry

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>Hi Jerry,
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>This is an interesting idea. It's not something that I would ever
>think of, because _personally_, my learning style is very much
>see-and-do, without much of an auditory component. (I should mention
>that I've never heard of the song in question, at least it doesn't
>ring a bell, so I can't judge whether or not it's catchy to me).
>Still, like I say, it's an interesting idea and it certainly doesn't
>hurt to play with it, after all, look at the popularity and
>educational utility of the alphabet song :-). But speaking
>_practically_, as I am wont to do occasionally, I think the things you
>have to ask yourself are one, does the limited memorisation burden of
>the irregular pronouns justify the effort to put them to a tune (and
>give the ditty a reasonable probabilty of survival), and two, does the
>sequence flow off the tongue sufficently? I don't know how much of a
>concern that second question is, I only bring it up because I have
>trouble pronouncing {zas} and {has} is succession.
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>Stephen
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