From: "jesse stephen bangs" <jaspax@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: Hiatus in Artlangs
> <clip>
> In poetry it would probably be variable, since most languages have
> allowances for reduction or elongation of vowels to meet poetic
> demands.
I wonder if this is unversally the case. It may
be largely European languages that do this.
Do the Japanese create haiku by swallowing
syllables?
Did the Tang poets do anything to the
sounds of characters to make them fit
poetry?
> Poetry is always a somewhat artificial
> communication form.
But it may be "artificial" in varying ways.