Re: Singing in foreign langs. was Re: Greetings

At 11:17 12.1.2003 -0500, Sally Caves wrote:

>When I try to put
>Teonaht into verse, especially rhyming verse, I still labor under the
>anglophonic assumption that the words cannot be distorted, emphasis cannot
>be changed, verbal phrases have to match measures; and therefore it's
>incredibly hard to versify Teonaht.
Well, maybe Teonim poets/composers/singwriters DO follow the same
strictures as their English counterparts!

Older Swedish poets ignored the difference between acute and grave
tone-accent in their rimes; something which sounds very wrong to me, but
obviously doesn't to most people.  I wonder if the accents get lost in
singing.  I never thought of that before.



/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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