Alliterative assertions of incompetence

[fivemack]

On a local IRC channel, I pointed out 'I know less of iOS development than a camel does of canoeing'; I'd previously used 'than a walrus does of wind-surfing'.

Alliterative expressions of animal incompetence are clearly fun to produce:

rejs+fivemack	than a badger does of baseball (originally 'basketball' but I think the trochee sounds better)
mdw	than a hamster does of hang-gliding
rjk	than crocodiles do of cross-stitch
senji	than an egret does of epistemology

The important things are assonance and a strong mental image ...

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Comments

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I'm using 'trochee' to mean a two-syllable word with the stress on the first syllable 'DAA-dum', though I think the term actually just refers to the stress pattern.