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"Tearin' Up My Heart" is a song by American #boyBand #NSYNC, from their debut album, 'N Sync (1997). The song was written by #MaxMartin and the producer #KristianLundin. It was released by #BMGAriola in Germany on February 10, 1997, and by #RCARecords in the United States on June 30, 1998, as the second #single from the album. A #dancepop and #teenPop song, it contains a pop-sounding #melody, a strong #beat, and a #funk-styled pre-#verse #breakdown.
youtube.com/watch?v=MPN6MISkZqw

To all my lovely nerdy, wordy peeps - this is DELIGHTFUL. 🤩

'The Perception of Rhythm in Language' by psycholinguist Dr. Anne Cutler, published in 1994.

1994! How could I not have known of this before now?

But today, I am one of the lucky 10, 000 - and so, my friend, are you. 🥰

(There are links in the article to the original paper & more about Dr. Cutler. ✅ )

kith.org/words/2022/06/11/best

www.kith.orgBest linguistics paper ever: “The perception of rhythm in language” – Words & Stuff
#Rhythm#Rhyme#Verse

Today's adventures in sign painting have taken a poignant poetic turn while researching a piece for BLAG 07:

"There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;"

The opening lines of 'The Men That Don't Fit In' by Robert W. Service, cited as the favourite poem of sign painting legend Keith Knecht.

Full verse here: poetryfoundation.org/poems/580

The Poetry FoundationThe Men That Don't Fit InThere's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race.
#poetry#poem#verse