Re: THEORY: poetic devices [was: Hiatus in Artlangs]

Yes, he does.  I used that quote in the paper I wrote on his use of language
and languages for my C.S. Lewis class.  And then comared it to what JRR does
in Tom Bombadil's poems.

Adam who wishes he had that paper handy so he could give the exact quote

>From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: poetic devices [was: Hiatus in Artlangs]
>Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:27:45 -0500
>
>On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, And Rosta wrote:
>
> > In Livagian, any well-formed phonological string can unambiguously
> > be segmented into a sequence of phonological words, but sometimes
> > with non-word fragments between them. These non-word fragments
> > can be identical to words, in everything except for tone, and
> > so can be used either for pure sound effect or for half saying
> > something and half not saying it, a bit like saying in English
> > "that is ______ disgusting", with a silent gap, and during the
> > silent gap making the lip movements for, say, "fucking". I mention
> > these non-word fragments because Livagian poetry makes use of them
> > to fill out a metrical pattern.
>
>This sort of reminds me of how the _Kalevala_ has some lines where
>some of the words don't mean anything: they are modified versions
>of other words in the line that do mean something.  Sorry to be
>so vague, but I think JRRT talks about this somewhere.
>
>--
>John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
>One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
>         --Douglas Hofstadter
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