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Hey everybody, I'm new here. My name's Ian, and i write under the names Ö, and Borea.

Welcome.

Welcome to Songfight! Please be awesome!

erik wrote:Welcome to Songfight! Please be awesome!

I'll try my best.

That's all I ask. Welcome!

Welcome to songfight. Please learn and grow while experiencing the community and the environment of sharing and especially the workshops.

applesandvodka wrote:... i write under the [name] Ö ...

how exactly do you pronounce Ö?
that is, how exactly do you pronounce Ö?

tviyh wrote:

applesandvodka wrote:... i write under the [name] Ö ...

how exactly do you pronounce Ö?
that is, how exactly do you pronounce Ö?

Kind of like a cross between O and URR.

tviyh wrote:

applesandvodka wrote:... i write under the [name] Ö ...

how exactly do you pronounce Ö?
that is, how exactly do you pronounce Ö?

I dunno if Rita Dove is an authority on this, but she does have a poem entitled "Ö," which I like a lot.

Ö

Shape the lips to an o, say a.
That's island.

One word of Swedish has changed the whole neighborhood.
When I look up, the yellow house on the corner
is a galleon stranded in flowers. Around it

the wind. Even the high roar of a leaf-mulcher
could be the horn-blast from a ship
as it skirts the misted shoals.

We don't need much more to keep things going.
Families complete themselves
and refuse to budge from the present,
the present extends its glass forehead to sea
(backyard breezes, scattered cardinals)

and if, one evening, the house on the corner
took off over the marshland,
neither I not my neighbor
would be amazed. Sometimes

a word is found so right it trembles
at the slightest explanation.
You start out with one thing, end
up with another, and nothing's
like it used to be, not even the future.


Welcome, applesandvodka.

applesandvodka wrote: Kind of like a cross between O and URR.

Sounds like German!
-bill