Re: OT: YAEPT: emphasis

>"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

>And it drive me nuts when I encounter words stressed in an
>unnatural way -  to make them fit into the rhythm of a poem or
>song lyric, for instance.  Total cheating.
You really don't have to worry about rhythm in contemporary soi-
disant poetry!  The poets simply write a bit of prose (which may in
itself be meaningful) and break it into short lines, then call it a
poem.  No feel for a special use of language such as rhythm, rhyme,
alliteration, etc.  THAT to me is cheating.  I could make the
Preamble to the Constitution a poem simply by dividing each sentence
into sections.  Maybe even a textbook on quantum physics.

>Throughout the above he consistently says /p@r'mIt/, rather than
>/'p@r.mIt/.  And at least IML, the noun is always the latter; the
>former is the verb.
Don't you love those English noun/verb pairs that differ only in
stress?  I find them one of the beauties of the English language.
Guaranteed to stymy the foreigner learning English.

Charlie