Oh Mighty Hyphen
While playing a Cthulhu Dark Ages event at GenCon, my characer — a Pictish farmer — was standing on top of a strange tower and having a fearsome vision. Looking out over the land, the Keeper informed me that I saw a giant hill on the horizon. Then, he said, the hill was suddenly split by...
"...a big-ass crack."
Which, of course, is indistinguishable in speech from...
"... a big ass-crack."
Oh mighty hyphen, how simply can you lay low the terror of the mythos. How easily does your movement from the beginning of a word to its end turn the horrific into the hi-larious, the majestic into the juvenile. How powerfully do you reveal the depths of childishness in which I can readily find humor. Oh mighty hyphen, I salute thee.
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oh, because there's nothing terrifying and fearsome about a giant hill on the horizon turning into an enormous rear-end and being divided by a giant ass-crack, as if it were gihugant creature that was going to rise up and squash you beneath its gargantual buttocks. nope, nuh uh.
Frankly, I think it is only a failure of visual imagination that made you not cower in fear.
;)