Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Natter-Wags

I Think That Means Something Wren GIF

 

Living in a jam-packed world

Where the known is hardly grasped

Confounds a basic understanding

Of precision barely clasped

 

So, what we say and how we say it

Is nowadays a free-for-all

As accent brogues and dialects

May well pervade your local hall

 

Street-talk slang and natter-wags

Tripping off a slithered phrase

To make it up among your few

Is at best an old malaise

 

Discourse slanted by a tongue-in-cheek

Equates a Nod as good as a wink

Where the yammer strikes a hammer blow

Brings understanding to the brink

 

Is language an opinion

Where common sense has lost the will

To reinvent as more mysterious

Portraying difference as swill

 

Do be brief when talking blether 

Dump the dunce and leave it out

Let pigeons coo and owl’s hoot

Plainly speak no need to spout

 

 

 


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