The Sixth Sick Sheik's
Sixth Sick Sheep (sic) Musical Performance The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is reputed to be
the most difficult tongue-twister in English. Using this
tongue-twister may be a breach of copyright, at the very
least. I’ve relinquished any claim of total authorship,
but that's cool, I haven't told the players what to play
either. All I’m doing is asking them to copy each other's
sounds. The title copies the original tongue-twister's sound,
but on paper, it gets it wrong. It may be guilty, then, of
copywrong. But the point of a tongue-twister is to copy wrong.
If it were easily copied right, it wouldn't be a tongue-twister.
That little (sic) at the end means it was wrong to begin with
and that being wrong is acceptable. This piece is about copying
wrong and having that little (sic) at your disposal - not
apologetically, but philosophically. I might have called it 'toy boat.' |
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