Listening to the powers of...twisted tongue twisters!!!

S.A.P. #6

Just before me and my fellow SAP classmates were dismissed, our miss gave us one more task before we go on our very merry (christmas) way: Tongue Twisters!
She made us read tongue twisters with themes concerning Christmas.

Such as:

'Bobby brings bright bells.'

And...I would love to share the other two but because of my poor and slowly degrading memory because the notion of Christmas-fever and 2011 nearing my head I could not remember the other two more twisters that twisted my delicate tongue whose ability is better off tasting Christmas Ham than being challenged about speaking random nonsense about bright bells in its impossible speed rate.

Anyway, since the start of the Holidays, I've been checking sites that specialized on tongue twisters and their significance:

In the bygone times, people pronounce spells and hexes in the form of tongue twisters, mainly because it sounds strange and is said to 'manipulate the mind'. Pretty paranormal, huh?

According to the Guiness World Records, the hardest tongue twister in the English language is this: 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.'

Tongue twisters uses alliteration and rhyme, unfamiliar constructs of loanwords or other ways of using language features to make the words more difficult to articulate once the speaker says it fast.

The following tongue twister had someone won a grand prize in Games Magazine during the year of 1979. It goes like this:
'Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott's Schnapps stooped Schwab's watch.'

Of course, our native tongue twisters are, hands down, still the best twisty twisters that can get our spittle flying just to pronounce the words clearly!

Palakang kabkab, kumakalabukab, kaka-kalabukab pa lamang, kumakalabukab na naman!

Pugong bukid, pugong gubat

Pitumput-pitong puting pating

Notebook at aklat, notebook at aklat, notebook at aklat...

Ang relo ni Leroy ay Rolex


Then, my ever-first Tongue Twister that I had happily succeeded in twisting in my tongue!

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

I was at least seven or eight when I accomplished in saying the tongue twister perfectly.

Anyway, a tongue twister's primary goal is to amuse everyone whenever we see someone struggle in pronouncing these words in their fastest possible.

I hope tongue twisters still survive even in the future, because it deserves a rightful place amongst golden shelves of entertainment and art, right there next to stand-up comedy, Glee and Limericks.

Now, since this blog is over, I'll just practice a new Twister here:

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were stuck so what could they do?
Said the Flea, 'let us fly!'
Said the Fly, 'Let us flee!'
So the Flea and the Fly flew from the flue...

In the Magickal World of Narnia

S.A.P.#5



Just recently watched Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and, as expected, it did not disappoint! Ever since watching the first movie, I have persistently waited for the upcoming sequels and knew that the next would be better and more interesting.

The Chronicles of Narnia, written by C.S. Lewis, tells the many stories of children who come from our world and is magically transported to Narnia to help its land in battling evil forces that threaten it. In all the seven books in the series, it mostly has the Pevensie siblings as protagonists of the story, with the exception from his fifth book 'The Horse and his Boy', it features a different hero and one that does come from Narnia itself. Recurring elements include talking animals, magical phenomenon, numerous mystical places, the Good vs. Evil archetypal plot and, of course, the Lion Aslan.

So far, Walden Media has presented three films, 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 'Prince Caspian' and 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'. Hollywood, of course, has done some revisions but only for the sake of filling censored gaps C.S. Lewis failed to write in his book. You see, Lewis was writing for children and so he didn't depict any violent situations that should describe a certain event. For instance, in the 'Lion'; in the film, the directors were ever okay in showing the big, climactic battle of Peter and Aslan's Army versus the White Witch's, while in his book, he emphasized more on how Susan and Lucy went back to the Witch's castle to rescue the prisoners and didn't go into full detail of the battle.
There are more actually in all of the movies, but I think the scriptwriters of Nania films did a good job of making the Narnia plot more solid and intense and un-Fairy Tale-ish, making the audience (me included) feel the grand scale of the adventures of the Pevensie children.

Narnia, unlike traditional fairy tales, has taken different folklores ad myths to a whole new level of adventurous spirit, emphasizing that children, no matter the age, do have the abilities to do the most impossible possible. And perhaps Narnia would have another need of them when the time comes again...

Everyday Paranormal-Provoking ghosts by just talking to them (Spooky!)

S.A.P. #4

Ghost Lab is a documentary series showed in Discovery Channel, televising the different adventures of Brad and Barry Klinge, co-founders of their own Paranormal Investigating Team called Everyday Paranormal.

I have watched the first season of Ghost Lab last summer and is now waiting for the second season (well, actually we're watching some episodes on the Net now, hehe).

Anyway, one of the most interesting parts of their investigative styles is communicating (in Brad and Barry's cases, they provoke) with the still earth-bound spirits that haunt a certain location or building. And they didn't have to do Seances or any other traditional supernatural way of doing it.

Using technology to record data, the Klinge brothers and their paranormal investigative team communicate with them to prove, or disprove, if the place really is haunted or gather evidence of paranormal phenomenon.

If you want to see the Klinge Brothers and the rest of the Everyday paranormal team in action, search them on YouTube or follow this link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azY0Jezip-E.

Ghost Lab isn't that really scary to watch, and maybe that's why I can still stand watching it XD.