Poetry is hard (was: RE: language change)

Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> wrote:

>     Interesting. Would it then be accurate to say that
> in a given lang, the features which are important to
> poetry are those which are the hardest to manipulate
> in that lang? (sort of a "creative challenge theory" of poetry?)
I really like that theory. I'll have to test it -- not right
now since I'm getting asleep, but soon. The most difficult
part of Draseléq I've found is to produce some comparative
and causative chains, like "I'm so tired that I can't talk";
worse, the lang seems to be mutating towards a more analytic
shape, with scattered clauses. Really complicated chains of
events are hard in Draseléq (they are hard in English, for
that matter, but you *can* structure them).


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html