Either way, there’s a definite chance that it’s great.
If anyone else wants to give it a show, maybe try a sonnet. Or an epic poem. The latter would leave enough room for a release date and system specs.
Either way, there’s a definite chance that it’s great.
If anyone else wants to give it a show, maybe try a sonnet. Or an epic poem. The latter would leave enough room for a release date and system specs.
Andrew
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 5:41 PMExcept the last line uses 6 syllables. Nice work, Gabe.
Chuloopa
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 5:47 PMGabe has had a fail
it was six syllables long
in the last sentence
:)
warcroft
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 6:20 PMSo did you, first line.
Lazarus
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 7:01 PMDepends whether you say “fail” or “fay-il”. Or “fae-awl”.
fishonthecarpet
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 7:40 PMWhat? Syllables don’t change depending on who is pronouncing it. It’s one.
Chrissomerry
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 8:16 PMActually how someone pronounces a syllable is very important in English poetry and music. Latin and Japanese have rigider systems, but in English, with our many dialects, not-exactly-precise pronunciation system, and love in general for saying words 100x different ways, it’s important enough ;)
Fail can be either 1 or two syllables depending on the speaker’s dialect, and how they’re choosing to say it. Since I say it close to “foul”, it’s 1 for me.
Snacuum
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 9:37 PMI would like to remind everyone that Haiku’s written in the English language do not need to adhere to the syllable limit at all.
Actually this makes Gabe’s response even funnier.
Twi
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 1:31 PMYes, yes they do. Ask any linguist who has a rudimentary knowledge of phonology.
Sheamus
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 5:56 PMMaybe the 6 syllables is intentional and the last word is a 1 syllable month name. March? May?
Sheamus
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 5:58 PMOh wait, it’s meant to be 5, don’t mind me.
Lobo
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 6:20 PMCheeky Gabe Newell
Torments us with fail Haiku
Syllables +1
Chris
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 6:22 PMI think he tripped up on “Epi”, counting it as one syllable.
Chrissomerry
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 8:18 PMStuff episode 3, now everyone wants to know whether Gabe says “Episode” or “Ep’sode” ;) (don’t take that seriously though valve! In truth we really want to know BOTH ;))
DomDies
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 9:26 PMClearly what happened here was Gabe ate one of the syllables and didn’t tell anyone. So in his mind it was 5.
Prof. Ake
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 2:14 AMHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
202halffound
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:44 PMWith the syllables thing: in Japanese it is not 5-7-5 syllables. It’s actually 5-7-5 morae, which is a concept which is not in English, so we just think of it as syllables.
Episode is actually 2 morae, epi-sode.
FroZzZen_F!re
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 11:25 PMIf anyone is reading this then i am calling it. They are going to release Half-life ep3 bundled with Dota2 and CounterStrike:GO
I recon it would be something like a OrangeBox 2.
Lobo
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 12:26 AMAnd hats. Don’t forget the hats.
Reoh
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 9:18 AMMaybe having no date for when it ships is a subtle hint that its never coming. :p
ba!
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 3:40 PMITS FUNNY
adrian milano
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 5:36 PMOr maybe with the insane amount of work he gets he just responded to this email very quickly and hence does not care or did not have time to proof read. My point, we are over thinking nothing.