Well my Haiku is technically a Senryu since it's not about the seasons.
Also, my haiku just so happens to be in Igbo... it still counts right?
My little poem conforms to haiku rules because it is 17 on long, first line is 5 on, second line 7 on, and the last line is 5 on.
(On = syllable)
Yay, here it is:
Nwunye na Nuno
Di teta ila mili
Onwu ga fa so
Breakdown:
Nwu/nye/na/nu/no - 5 on
Di/ te/ta/i/la/mi/li - 7 on
O/nwu/ga/fa/so - 5 on
Translation:
Wife and her lover
Husband wakes to get a drink (water)
Death follows soon
Yay!! I feel so proud of myself and my little Senryu!!! :D
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congratulations! love the darkness proper seyru it seems.
p.s. first oiran, then anime, then haiku, i see you taking some form of Japanese classes in the future. not sure if it will be language or history or whatever...
Nice one, didn't know the work for lover. Can you transliterate nuno? And the last line I would've said; ga fe so..
nice work ... congrats
like your igbo accent
Mehn Sugarbelly
the igbo wey u speak give me serious headache o
@Azazel: How so?
I can tell ur from ANAMBRA STATE......... our igbo is sooo sexyy compared to the rest okwa ya?
lol..jk..jk
@iphyigbogirl: LOL!!!!
But in truth, I do believe there is some merit to the assertion that Anambra Igbo sounds sexier than all the other versions. (At least it sounds that way to my ear, and no, where I'm from contributes no bias).
I think it has something to do with the choice of sounds (i.e. certain sounds are more melodious than others).
e.g. I find saying mili and iru sexier than saying miri and ihu. Also, I think I would rather say 'N wotaro' rather than 'A hotam'
But maybe that's just me and maybe that's just my little idiosyncrasy.
To my ear Anambra Igbo sounds more elegant in speech.
Again, this is just how it sounds in my ear. (Because this particular discussion ALWAYS ends in bloodshed :D)
Do you find it's the same for you?
yea i feel the same way too.....but like you said..... "to my ear"...because i have this argument with my non-Anambra igbo friends and they are soo bitter about the fact that i say it sounds better TO ME......
and i also agree with the fact that it has something to do with the choice of sounds.....generally it flows better.....like saying.... "la ula or laru ula" is easier than saying "hie ura".....
and i think its also easier to learn because the times i have tried to teach people igbo, they seemed to catch on to the Anambra dialect quicker than the central igbo dialect.....
but then again its possible that it's because we are used to it ...maybe that's why it sounds better to us.... because some central igbo people disagree with me a lot when i say it sounds more pleasing to the ear....... because they are used to their own dialect....
OMG... what is hie ura? I've never heard it before. How interesting... Hie ura to mean go to sleep. I get the ura bit (simple L/R exchange) but the 'hie' bit is very interesting.
I think that there's a lot of sensitivity about one dialect being perceived to be better than the others and this generally creates tensions whenever discussions like this come up.
I personally think Anambra Igbo sounds better BECAUSE (whether by accident or by artifice) the selection of sounds and the way they are combined flows far more easily into the ear than other dialects.
Your Hie Ura is a perfect example. It sounds awkward at best while Laru ula just flows.
I hope everyone else gets what I'm trying to say. I am not saying that other Igbo dialects are without merit but I am saying that Anambra Igbo seems to be for all intents and purposes more elegantly composed than the others.
Now finding out how this came to be would be a fascinating study but the truth is that I already have a theory that I'm fairly certain is very close to the truth.
I think that because of Anambra (particularly Onicha's long history/relationship with the Benin court), Anambra Igbo developed along the lines of 'court speech' - i.e. paying more attention to the overall sound of the speech and the impression its melodiousness gives. Valuing the language for the auditory pleasure it provides and not simply as a tool for communication. Coupled with the fact that Anambra Igbo seems to have a couple more flourishes and distinctions than other dialects (e.g. Oyi = regular friend, Enyi = friend with benefits, Nuno = lover, etc) I don't think this is too far from the truth.
But either way, its very interesting.
And to be brutally honest, I do not like the sound of Central Igbo. It is not because it is not my dialect that I dislike the sound of Central Igbo. I honestly believe that even if I had grown up speaking Central Igbo I would still dislike the way it sounds. I dislike Central Igbo because its sound makeup is poor and involves a lot of badly placed 'Hs' and 'Rs'.
Maybe this is just because I don't like 'Hs' and 'Rs' (at least not when used that way). Central Igbo is still Igbo after all and I adore my language but in all honesty, the NUMBER ONE reason I speak Anambra Igbo is because it sounds more elegant to me.
And I disagree with people that claim that their own dialect sounds more pleasing to their ears.
Something either sounds nice or it doesn't. Sounds are scientifically proven to have different effects on people. Sure, their dialect might sound COMFORTABLE and FAMILIAR to their ears because they are used to hearing it, but no amount of familiarity will make an unpleasant sound sound any nicer. And no amount of unfamiliarity will render a nice sound jarring.
@Sugabelly,Haiku is sometime interesting when carefully put in the right tone and syllables.I won a Haiku poem in poetry.com few years ago when I was very young.
I think one of the rules is 5 syllables of 3 lines in poetry.com.
That was good to read.
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