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posted by
TAPS.
on May 14, 2015 at 7:31 AM
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I think, based on your son's poem, that I can infer what
stridulating is. Thinking to summers past, it's akin to timpani, and tends to make a two-way conversation a bit complicated on the old front porch.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 14, 2015 at 4:30 AM
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I remember them coming out one year while I was in school in Springfield...yikes!
posted by
Annicita
on May 13, 2015 at 10:37 PM
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I think the Sydney Cicada cycle is 7 years...I miss their song up here.
Tell Son his poem has made me just a little homesick but I think he is brilliant.
posted by
Kabu
on May 13, 2015 at 5:15 PM
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TAPS
Love it! And I learned a new word in the process! I figured it was related to strident, though I had never heard of stridulate - but I have now...And neither do I have the slightest knowledge of the cicada life cycle...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 13, 2015 at 12:35 PM
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Re: mneme
The whole idea of any writing that Son #1 does is to use words that someone might have to look up in the dictionary. He was brought up that way. When he asked what some word meant, he was always told to look it up. I don't want to defeat his purpose by telling.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 13, 2015 at 12:20 PM
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Hi Taps... very nice - but what's 'stridulating'??
posted by
mneme
on May 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM
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