Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Name that festive tune - Emphasis
Name that festive tune   Name that festive tune  Oh, jingle bells! Under the influence of one too many eggnog-laced espressos, weve only gone and rewritten verses from three popular Christmas songs in almost impenetrable management speak.  Passive constructions? Tautology? Unnecessarily long words? Latin? Oh yes.  Can you translate these tunes back to their original festive format? Email us your answers once youve deciphered them. The first five people with the correct songs will win a copy of the book My Grammar and I (or should that be Me?)  And, from everyone at Emphasis: it is our fondest desire that you experience a convivial festive period. We really mean it.    1  The decrepitation of Castanea sativa on an unenclosed conflagration  The arctic impingement of Jokul Frosti on ones proboscis  The harmonising of a choral ensemble on festive canticles  And citizens attired in the accoutrement of the Inuit.    2  Im experiencing a reverie in which I behold a Yuletide that is niveous  In all ways identical to those I was familiar with at some point prior to today  During which time the uppermost parts of foliage scintillated  And pre-pubescent juveniles gave attention  To perceive tintinnabulation amongst crystalline water ice.    3  The Ilex aquifolium and the Hedera helix  At the exact moment that they have advanced to their maximum dimension  Taking into account the entire scope of flora to be found in the thicket  It is atop the Ilex aquifolium that the coronet is borne.    
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