Re: The nature of birds and conlangs

At 11:49 25/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> C: praises for night-sky in throat of lark
>> C: When the songbird glorifies the Even Star,
>> C: Songbird glorifies night star
>> C: "if" a bird of a song be a glorifier of the star of the night,
>&c.
>
>Well, here's my wrench in the works: One of the glosses for Kernu
>'uesvoers' was "Evenstar", others are "night sky" and (poetically) "The
>West" / "Heaven".  "Night sky" was the "correct" word to choose.
>
>Nice, though, the way Christophe took lines without verbs and all,
>inserting appropriate forms.
>
        It was indeed a difficult exercise, thank you Padraic :) . But I loved it,
and I found the result particularly beautiful and ambiguous, just like
Moten poetry is supposed to be (which gave Josh many problems to understand
my poem).

>Padraic.
>
>>
>> --
>> 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)
>
>
                                                        Christophe Grandsire
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