Re: Insane Question

Hmmm... that's a good point.  This is why I shouldn't be allowed to write
anything for public consumption at 4am.

I'm feeling like I need to come up with a language that will make rhyming
easy.  Seriously, to write up a language that's primarily useful to poets
and songwriters, and make every other consideration secondary.  I, frankly,
stink at making up rhymes in English.  Maybe if there's a buffet approach to
affixes... like, several suffixes (suffices?) that will do the same thing
grammatically, allowed for each group of words.  Six different ways of
indicating the genitive case, all of which are equally valid for any noun.
Hmm.  Hard to memorize, with way too much diversity for day-to-day
conversations, but perfect for rhyming.  And every suffix will have at least
two or three syllables, so that they'll ALL rhyme all the time.

BTW, thanks for the link.  All my grammar books are for Russian (Though
there's a particularly helpful one called "English Grammar for Students of
Russian," it's in a box in my mother's basement in Ohio at the moment).

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Tristan
> I beg to differ: 'killing' and 'throwing' don't rhyme. 'Stealing' and
> 'feeling' only rhyme by grace of the root. (The same does not apply to
> -ations though.)
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