Re: quantitative meter, accent and verse form

William Annis scripsit:

>  I will long remember a debate on the merits of various
> translations of "pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo" with most attention on
> the last word.
Yes, it's a lexical gap in English: we have no verb for "irrumare".

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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