"What genre did Howard L. Chace, a professor of French, use when he wrote ""Ladle Rat Rotten Hut"", the story of Little Red Riding Hood written using English words (but never the correct ones) to demonstrate that the intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves?"
Howard L. Chace Howard L. Chace Howard L. Chace was a professor of Romance languages at Miami University, who wrote poems and stories employing homophonic transformation. In 1940, he wrote "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" to demonstrate that the intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves. It was first published in Gene Sherman's column in the "Los Angeles Times" in 1953 and in the first issue of "Sports Illustrated" in 1954. In "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" the classic Little Red Riding Hood tale is told, purposely replacing its usual words with similar-sounding words that are strung
Anguish Languish words, and its chief raison d'être is to demonstrate the marvelous versatility of a language in which almost anything can, if necessary, be made to mean something else." His story "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" is "Little Red Riding Hood" re-written with similar-sounding words substituting for the original folk tale. A professor of French, Chace wrote "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" in 1940 to demonstrate that the intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves. It was first published in Gene Sherman's "Cityside" column in the "Los Angeles Times" in 1953, reprinted in the "San