Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Tutorial: Changing a phrase

One of my interest is to change a lyric of a song or a a phrase to be in very different meaning.... no matter if it is going to be silly, sarcasm or even sceptic. However, I still try to maintain the rhyme... :P

I've done this in since I was in Junior High School when Boy Bands were growing like a mushroom in the rainy season... or even similar to... spreading like very contagious viruses... :P So during the time the Boy Bands' song were my primary victim... hihihi...

The simplest way of changing the lyric was by changing the word 'heart' into 'butt'... they both have the same word category which is noun... and they both are body parts... and the best of all they have the both end with the same letter... so the rhyme of the song will still be maintained :P

The other word that you can change is... the word 'beauty' into 'ugly'...
Practice and training is really important so we can improve the ability to the find suitable word to substitute the words... :P
And if I may suggest... watching good quality situation comedy is highly recommended to enrich our vocabulary... specially the sarcastic vocabulary... hehehe...

I won't provide some example to this step because this is very easy to find and you can find enormous number of songs that contains the word 'heart'... since most of theme of the songs are love... but, let's discuss it in the different opportunity :)

However don't be disappointed... since I will provide a step by step example on changing a phrase...

Recently, I have a nice phrase regarding a of a friendship...
"Old friends are gold. New friends may be diamond. If you get diamond, don't ever forget the gold because to hold a diamond you always need a base of gold"

Ok, let's scrutinise this nice... humble... and sweet quote and destroy it into the sceptic one... shall we?

First, find the key words... for example: gold and diamond...

Secondly, find the substitute for those words...
gold --> goat
diamond --> demon

Thirdly, combine it!
"Old friends are goats, new friends may be demon. If you get demon, don't ever forget the goat... because..."

Nah, here's come the tricky part... which requires some thinking and a bit creativity... :P
Ok, since we had changed the keywords, we have to change the part of the phrase that explain the opening. This is important because we have to make the phrase still logical... hahaha... but c'mon this is the fun part... :P

Hmm... on of the way to make it sounds logical is to find the correlation between the words...
so the correlation between the word 'goat' and 'daemon' is... goat head and pentagram is the symbol of the satan/daemon... hahaha....

See! there's a correlation between them...
but if you can't find any... just make them up... hahaha...

Thus we can continue our modified phrase...

"Old friends are goats, new friends may be daemon. If you get daemon, don't ever forget the goat... because goat head is the symbol of daemon."

But wait a second... it's not finish yet... to finalize the modified quote... we have to explain the meaning of it:
"Sometimes we have a very disturbing and annoying old friend and you imagine this friend is just like a goat, and we got a new friend... but apparently the new friend you found is even worse than our old friend"
sounds realistic, isn't it? :)
or on the other words, this new phrase is having the same meaning with the famous phrase "things could be worse" hahaha...

See! changing a nice phrase to the sceptic one is not hard, is it? :P

Additionally, one day when I've become famous and there someone who wants to write a book: "How to think like Teguh Suryadi"* this article should be considered as good reference... hihihi....

*inspired by a book that I am currently reading "How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci" :)

4 comments:

  1. yes it is... and it should be, as it it labeled as "silly" :P

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  2. hahaha...The book should be "How to think sarcastic & sceptic like Teguh Suryadi" ;))

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  3. Thanks for the suggestion MarKus! :P

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