this is a haiku
this line has sev syllables
yes it really sucks

Oh, it's a haiku
Those can be interesting
Changed to Off Topic

Why chose a haiku
They can be time-consuming
Eat burgers instead :D

Fuck your damn haikus
I'll talk however I please
Stupid patterned speech

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

Huh huh huh huh huh
Huh huh huh m huh huh m
Huh huh m uh huh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1j3UmjEOVQ

I don't like haikus
Most people can't write them well
Just look at this one

nurble nurble nurble nurble
nurble nurble nurble nurble nurble nurble
nurble nurble nurble

Null0010 :
Haiku tests limits,
though only to minor stuff;
Null should wear sweet scruff.

ippiki_ookami :
Named for dog god, right?
'Ippiki' is crushing;
Is that three or four?

titaniachkt :
Can't even pronounce.
All hope depends on a guess,
and sounds like a sneeze.

Riversyde :
This one is no trial
as the name represents funk.
"Riverside, MF."

Aurali :
Named after a star,
she really has some weird kinks.
Hope I don't get banned :c

Char :
Adorable, yes.
Though I don't pick fire starter,
too cute for own good.

DragonRanger :
Hello, D-Ranger;
Does best work on pony pics.
Also slew Aztecs.

Rainbow_Dash :
By Poseidon's crank!
He/She has become real good,
and quite friendly, too.

Varka :
Owns sweet porn business,
though 'products' slightly disturb.
Probably (Prob-Lee) mad genius.

Did I miss any of our lovely admins?

Laevateinn said:

Did I miss any of our lovely admins?

A few. http://e621.net/user/index?level=50

furballs_dc said:
A few. http://e621.net/user/index?level=50

I meant 'active' ones,
the kind seen regularly.
I've not seen some.

Ami~ :
Sorry, I forgot.
Please don't hold it against me;
I offer acorns.

tony311 :
Tony is a fox;
Null and Ipp call him "stinky."
I can't smell through screen.

ktkr :
Alias is odd.
Name sounds like kit-kat candy;
and there, I'm hungry.

Inquiry :
Name implies questions;
my only one is simple :
"Who are you, again?"

Dragonfruit :
Once more, we do this;
a name I don't recall now,
and I want fruit, too.

Laevateinn said:
Null0010 :
Haiku tests limits,
though only to minor stuff;
Null should wear sweet scruff.

Should've converted that to Null in Binary;)

http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp

Furries are strange, yes?
Yes, of course they are, you fools.
You gonna get raped.

When my grandma died...
There was a rainbow outside.
Fucking Lesbian.

When my grandma died...
There was a rainbow outside.
Fucking Lesbian.

Laevateinn said:
Aurali :
Named after a star,
she really has some weird kinks.
Hope I don't get banned :c

wat

Alkaid is a fan
Of Romance of Three Kingdoms
Isn't that groovy?

Aurali said:
wat

It's really hard to make that many and make sense.
Did I have you confused for Arcturus when it came to the "Star" line?

Laevateinn said:
It's really had to make that many and make sense.
Did I have you confused for Arcturus when it came to the "Star" line?

Yes

I once killed a man.
I shot him in the head twice.
Shot his fucking head.

There once was a girl from Madras
Who had a remarkable ass,
It's not round and pink
Like you'd probably think,
But is grey, has long ears, and eats grass.

Am I doing it right?

Hammie said:
There once was a girl from Madras
Who had a remarkable ass,
It's not round and pink
Like you'd probably think,
But is grey, has long ears, and eats grass.

Am I doing it right?

I'm sorry Hammie
It was a bit too long dude
Try it like this bro

time is infinite,
you people suck at hakiue
and I spelled hiaku wrong, fuck

Test-Subject_217601 said:
Alkaid is a fan
Of Romance of Three Kingdoms
Isn't that groovy?

Oh? R O T K?
those games are really awesome
Liu Bei always

A dissonance of
somber realizations
makes me feel so small.

A proverbial
small fish in a big pond who
swims for life itself.

OH MY GOD THE WORD "HAIKU" IS THREE SYLLABLES

*hyperventilates*

ha-i-ku

Foobaria said:
OH MY GOD THE WORD "HAIKU" IS THREE SYLLABLES

*hyperventilates*

ha-i-ku

It's two.

It's two syllables, but three morae. And haiku are properly measured in morae.

Then again, the number of morae in various English syllables is...more difficult to determine than the number of morae in a Japanese word.

What is a Haiku?
Something real? Or something un-
real? Nothing really!

Now, I'm going to
do drama. With these words I'll
start: HOW, NOW, BROWN, COW.

"Haiku" is a Japanese word. It is made up of the following Japanese syllables: "ha" "i" "ku". "hai" is not a single syllable in the Japanese language.

Foobaria said:
"Haiku" is a Japanese word. It is made up of the following Japanese syllables: "ha" "i" "ku". "hai" is not a single syllable in the Japanese language.

Japanese phonemes are morae, not syllables. Haiku is two syllables, but three morae (ha-i-ku). As some other examples, Nippon is also two syllables, but has four morae (ni-p-po-n), the honorific san is one syllable and two morae (sa-n), and dōmo is two syllables and three morae (do-u-mo).

Snowy said:
Japanese phonemes are morae, not syllables. Haiku is two syllables, but three morae (ha-i-ku). As some other examples, Nippon is also two syllables, but has four morae (ni-p-po-n), the honorific san is one syllable and two morae (sa-n), and dōmo is two syllables and three morae (do-u-mo).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku#Examples

This haiku by Issa[21] illustrates that 17 Japanese on do not always equate to 17 English syllables ("nan" counts as two on and "nonda" as three.)

江戸の雨何石呑んだ時鳥

えどのあめなんごくのんだほとゝぎす

edo no ame nan goku nonda hototogisu

This separates into "on" as:

e-do no a-me (5)
na-n go-ku no-n-da (7)
ho-to-to-gi-su (5)

Yes, that's pretty much what I said. On is the Japanese term for morae (at least in the context of things like Haiku).

But what I said contradicted what you said. Japanese haiku go by on/morae, and "haiku" has three.

Unless you're trying to argue that in an English haiku, because most English people say "haiku" as two syllables, it doesn't count how it really is in Japanese. In which case, ugh. I'm not a fan of corrupting words from their original languages.

What I'm saying is that English haiku go by syllables, because we don't have an easy way to see exactly how many morae are in any given word. In Japanese, haiku go by on (a.k.a. morae). The number of on in a Japanese word is not the same thing as the number of syllables. "Nippon" is a two-syllable word, even in Japanese, but it has four on (thus leaving room for only one additional on if it's in the first or third line, or three additional on in the second line).

Edit: better explanation:
"Haiku" has two syllables, and three on. So in an English haiku, it is two units, and in a Japanese haiku, it is three units. They don't use the same units.

Most Japanese people will take roughly the same amount of time to say "nippon" as they will to say "hon'ya da" or "kawaii" or "sore ja ne" or "hatsuhiro" or what have you. The language is very rhythmic, plus I took a year of Japanese (casually, admittedly) from an actual Japanese professor, so if you insist that "nippon" is a two-syllable word in Japanese, I insist you cite your source.

Syllables are not units of constant length. Morae are, in Japanese.

As for your Japanese education, my Japanese professor made a point of distinguishing between syllables and onji. As far as a citable source, try [url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ccirHvoM23cC&q=nagasaki#v=snippet&q=nagasaki&f=false]this[/url].