Re: The nature of birds and conlangs

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.

Padraic.

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> --
> 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)