This is a conversation I had with my sister. She is a journalism major and I thought she would be the best to help me with this.

cynthiaswift02 (10:15:38 PM): hi

JJBop21 (10:15:50 PM): so what are we going to talk about?

cynthiaswift02 (10:16:05 PM): I thought you wanted to talk about rhythm

JJBop21 (10:16:19 PM): yes, but what about rhythm

cynthiaswift02 (10:16:37 PM): well, I don't know, it's your project

JJBop21 (10:16:55 PM): well what do you think of when you think of rhythm

cynthiaswift02 (10:17:31 PM): well, we have been joking about song lyrics, but it also makes me think of dancing, and of the rhythm in poetry

cynthiaswift02 (10:17:37 PM): like meter and stuff

cynthiaswift02 (10:19:13 PM): I guess rhythm in general makes me think of pacing or something similar to tempo I suppose

JJBop21 (10:20:07 PM): the only thing I can think of is 'I don't feel like dancing' by the Scissors Sisters

JJBop21 (10:20:24 PM): This has nothing to do with rhythm

cynthiaswift02 (10:20:38 PM): wow, you are even more off the target than I am

cynthiaswift02 (10:20:43 PM): I no longer feel in the dark

JJBop21 (10:20:55 PM): I know, I don't really know what to talk about

cynthiaswift02 (10:21:34 PM): let me see if I can find a definition of what rhythm is I guess

cynthiaswift02 (10:23:32 PM): okay, there are a few things that I found

cynthiaswift02 (10:23:40 PM): the first refers to a cycle

cynthiaswift02 (10:23:45 PM): it says, "an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs)"

cynthiaswift02 (10:24:04 PM): the next talks about rhythm in regards to a beat, like in music

cynthiaswift02 (10:24:20 PM): it says, "The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music"

JJBop21 (10:24:32 PM): but he wants more of the rhythm with writing

JJBop21 (10:24:40 PM): rhythm in music is easy

cynthiaswift02 (10:25:00 PM): the next is the one that I thought of, which is rhythm in poetry

cynthiaswift02 (10:25:03 PM): I was getting to that

JJBop21 (10:25:18 PM): and I can see rhythm poetry but he was talking about everyday conversation

cynthiaswift02 (10:25:33 PM): well, it refers to rhythm with words

cynthiaswift02 (10:25:37 PM): so we are getting closer

cynthiaswift02 (10:25:41 PM): it says, "(the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements"

cynthiaswift02 (10:25:53 PM): so, I guess it’s what parts of the conversations are stressed or not

cynthiaswift02 (10:26:01 PM): which might be harder to see with IMs

cynthiaswift02 (10:26:08 PM): however, that’s what cap locks are for

JJBop21 (10:26:33 PM): IM do have an interesting rhythm of their own

cynthiaswift02 (10:27:17 PM): but yea, I can understand how if the stresses on particular words are changed then the whole meaning is changed....it’s the same thing when you capitalize different words in an IM, it changes the whole sentence

cynthiaswift02 (10:27:27 PM): I wish I could think of an example off hand

JJBop21 (10:27:44 PM): I help my uncle jack off the horse

JJBop21 (10:27:50 PM): it is a classic!!

cynthiaswift02 (10:28:05 PM): what?

cynthiaswift02 (10:28:33 PM): oh, I help my uncle Jack off ....the horse

JJBop21 (10:28:42 PM): you can have Uncle Jack off the horse

cynthiaswift02 (10:28:45 PM): or, I help my uncle jack....off the horse

JJBop21 (10:29:12 PM): yup, I remember it from high school

cynthiaswift02 (10:29:28 PM): I guess depending on what part you stressed, it means a lot of different things

JJBop21 (10:29:34 PM): yup

cynthiaswift02 (10:30:41 PM): so, depending on the way you say something it can then change the whole conversation, or the rhythm of it

JJBop21 (10:32:10 PM): yes and minus the caps, IM's lose most of the inflection normal conversations have

cynthiaswift02 (10:33:09 PM): they do!

cynthiaswift02 (10:33:35 PM): my boyfriend thought I was trying to fight with him last night because he didn’t hear the way I would have said the words

cynthiaswift02 (10:33:58 PM): it happens quite often in IM conversations

JJBop21 (10:34:21 PM): I can't count the number of times, I was joking with someone and they got up tight because they couldn't tell I was laughing

cynthiaswift02 (10:35:27 PM): right, that happens quite often

cynthiaswift02 (10:35:58 PM): so I guess though we don’t think about it, rhythm plays a big part in conversation

JJBop21 (10:36:17 PM): I guess so, I never really thought about it before

cynthiaswift02 (10:37:07 PM): me neither, that’s interesting

JJBop21 (10:39:27 PM): well I guess this is good enough

cynthiaswift02 (10:40:44 PM): well, awesome....I'm glad I could be of help

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