Re: Thought and Language

Peter Clark wrote:

> but being raised on Beethoven (the 9th!)
Oh, you mean that thing which my mother (a native German) characterized
as "an overblown beer-hall tune"?

Anyway, any language that can contain Goethe's "Wanderers Nachtlied",
even sans melody, cannot be restricted to the heroic mode.

Here it is:

        =DCber allen Gipfeln
        Ist Ruh,
        In allen Wipfeln
        Sp=FCrest du
        Kaum einen Hauch;
        Die V=F6gelein schweigen im Walde.
        Warte nur, balde
        Ruhest du auch.

(Flatfooted literal translation:  "Over all mountains there is rest,
in all treetops you feel hardly a breath; little birds are quiet
in the forest.  Wait now, soon you too will rest.")

-- =

John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)