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[lapsedmodernist]

The other day in the car theophile and I heard that annoying but catchy song "Stuttering" where the refrain goes "so kiss me again cuz only you can stop the s-s-s-s-tuttering."

I said that the way the way the word "stuttering" is pronounced in that song is onomatopoeic. theophile vehemently disagreed. Your thoughts?

also a couple of new photos of Fionn, who will be turning one (!) in just a couple of weeks.

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[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

yeah, he looks like a little boy now, not an infant...it's so odd! his hair is pretty light, but I mean it's also sunlit in that photo. But it's significantly lighter than both mine and theophile's current haircolor. I dunno, I think theophile had light-ish hair as a baby. I always had very dark hair.

[mjmj.livejournal.com]

I always had very dark hair.

maybe it is time for you to repost la petite chica with wee pnts and your son?

O/T: did you see this week's PBS NOVA with the story of the heroic anthropologists "breaking the Mayan code"?

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

He continues to look like both of you.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I kind of see it, in fragments.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

so okay, ontologically it may not be onomatopoeia, but is it, still, functionally? I mean, can mimesis be functional onomatopoeia?

[paracelsus.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting thought, but seeing as a person can stutter over various sounds rather than just the one, it could only be an onomatopoeia of a particular case of stuttering over 's' (s-s-s-s), not stuttering as a general concept or a... err... a praxis. It'd also be relevant if you define onomatopoeia as a subset of mimesis, or as something different - so perhaps onomatopoeia is a functional mimesis.

What did Fionn think?

[profundamente.livejournal.com]

he looks like a surfer boy!

if people who stutter eventually pronounce the whole word, then it seems like it would be correct to say that way 'stuttering' is mentioned in the refrain is an example of onomatopoeia. i was listening to a 5 yr speak a few days back (she was stuttering a bit) and...to me, stuttering goes on until either the speaker or listener (both?) figure out the word that is trying to be said or gets said.

actually, the word itself, even without the 's-s-s' seems like an example of onomatopoeia. wonder what this word is in languages other than english...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

surfer boy? It's the necklace and the rumpled hair, isn't it?

w/r/t the song--that's what I was thinking, too. He sings "only you can stop the s-s-s-s-tuttering."

gorgeous baby!

[dg76.livejournal.com]

i totally thought surfer boy when i saw this too!

of course, i've been listening to too much jack johnson lately, so maybe i just have summer/beach on the brain.

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

Whoa, he's a kid now, isn't he? And a gorgeous one!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

awww thank you! :)

[zerodivide1101.livejournal.com]

When did you find time to have a child with Jim Morrison

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

what do you think is Jim Morrison-y about him?

[zerodivide1101.livejournal.com]

DUDE.

[zerodivide1101.livejournal.com]

Hah, I guess it's just really the shirtless-with-bead-necklace thing actually. Maybe the hair a little.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Fionn is definitely fatter. But also has an intense gaze.

[kowboy.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, Morrison was a chubby baby and remained so up through his college years. It wasn't until he started attending UCLA film school that he slimmed down.

[zerodivide1101.livejournal.com]

As if he were full of LSD

Is he full of LSD?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

he is full of Love, Sweetness, and Darlingness.

[zerodivide1101.livejournal.com]

a Totally Happy Child

[theophile.livejournal.com]

guys I just noticed that if you read just the capital letters in the two comments above this it spells out acronyms for drugs, no word of a lie

[zerodivide1101.livejournal.com]

also if you queue up Dark Side of the Moon and play it just at the right time at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz, I WILL APPEAR TONIGHT UNDER YOUR BED, YOU WILL HEAR ME.... AND SEE ME FOR ONLY A SECOND....... BUT WITH MY KNIFE..... I WILL KILL YOU.

[kowboy.livejournal.com]

I've known a few people who stutter and I myself have a slight stammer I've learned to control. The people I know who stuttered would have been more likely to hold the "ess" sound out like they were hissing rather than punctuating the word with repetitions. So instead of "s-s-s-s-tuttering" it would sound like "sssssstut ... tering." The pause would generally come between two consonants although the "ess" and "eff" sounds would be more common to actually have a hard time vocalizing.

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is, for a baby, he has this intense smoldering expression and babies and smoldering usually don't go together, but it totally works for him. I advise him to keep at it. By the time he hits adolescence it's going to be deadly.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Smoldering, hmmm. Also who is this?

[twotoedsloth.livejournal.com]

Twotoedsloth. Hmm. I didn't mean to be secretive, it just happened that way.

[yanatonage.livejournal.com]

What a handsome young man.

I used to pronounce his name "fee-on" every time I read it here, but then I was reading about Fionn Maccool on Wikipedia and a lightbulb went off in my head, and I felt silly.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

yep, that's who he was named after. Although I toyed with the idea of "Huckleberry" as a middle name.

!!!

[amadea.livejournal.com]

HAIR



HE HAZ IT

[sissyhips.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh...I think your Fionn is destined to be a lady-killer. He will play guitar. And surf. And leave them wanting morrrrrre.

[cyberanya.livejournal.com]

soo cute. love the hair!! (and the necklace). also, he looks very different at these two pics - more "ethnic" (tatar? :) on the first one

whoa

[pazonada.livejournal.com]

Have you heard the song SLUTTERING by Jawbreaker? I love that song. In other news, I can't believe your son is one. And I can't believe I have yet to meet him.