{"id":2495,"date":"2012-05-19T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2012-05-20T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T16:45:43","slug":"the-chaos-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/05\/19\/the-chaos-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chaos: update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred by a discussion of language learning and pronunciation, I revisited my favorite English-language poem this weekend: Gerard Nolst Trenit\u00e9&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/concordant-chaos\/\">Dearest Creature In Creation<\/a>&#8221; (a.k.a. &#8220;English Pronunciation&#8221;, or &#8220;The Chaos&#8221;).  I cleaned up my composite version, fitting in most of the remaining couplets that have appeared in one of the author&#8217;s revisions, marking where the various versions start to diverge, and adding pronunciation notes for a few more words. <\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it recently, it&#8217;s worth a few minutes of your time.  And if someone with a melodious voice feels like recording a reading of it, that would be a boon.<br \/>\n<strong>Update<\/strong>: Jacob Rus points me to <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jrus\/english-pronunciation\">this recording<\/a> he made of a different version of the poem.  Awesome!  A British version would be grand too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finally, which rhymes with <em>enough<\/em>:<br \/>\n<em>Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough<\/em>\u203d<br \/>\n<em>Hiccough<\/em> has the sound of &#8216;<em>sup<\/em>&#8216; &#8230;<br \/>\nMy advice is: <strong>give it up<\/strong>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred by a discussion of language learning and pronunciation, I revisited my favorite English-language poem this weekend: Gerard Nolst Trenit\u00e9&#8217;s &#8220;Dearest Creature In Creation&#8221; (a.k.a. &#8220;English Pronunciation&#8221;, or &#8220;The Chaos&#8221;). I cleaned up my composite version, fitting in most of the remaining couplets that have appeared in one of the author&#8217;s revisions, marking where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210,211,6034,209,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang","category-international","category-meta","category-popular-demand","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Ef","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}