Re: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:28:30 +0200 Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
writes:
>     Perhaps the extreme example here would be poets who learn a
> foreign lang.
> I recently heard a radio program featuring published poets from
> various
> countries who came to live in Israel. Some could write poetry in
> Hebrew
> and some couldn't. All had a basic mastery over the lang; but only
> those
> who delved deeper into the culture and thought in terms of it,
> considered
> themselves competent to write poetry in Hebrew.
>
> Dan Sulani

I don't know if i'm competent to write poetry in Hebrew :-) , but since i
started really doing it, English doesn't seem to work anymore for poetry.
 I'm not sure why, maybe i've just learned so much more Hebrew poetry in
depth than English poetry that poetics has become associated with it.

-Stephen (Steg)
 "you can always tell that a zmirah was written by a sfardi - they rhyme
/O/ with /a/.  hrmph."

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