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Re: poetry

From:Rik Roots <rikroots@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 19, 2000, 21:17
> Have you written any poetry in your conlangs?
Yes - a while back. Gladly, I've lost those texts (it was turning into a task of trying to fit a developing grammar into a set of nice sounding stanzas, rather than developing a conlang from which good sounding poetry could flow - with some very messy, artificial compromises, which took me ages to root out when I returned to the language a couple of years ago). My English poetry isn't too bad (at http://homepages.enterprise.net/rikroots/index.html for those looking for five minutes away from parsing and conjugating). I am developing Gevey with a plan of writing large chunks of the conculture history in the vernacular - possibly epic style. Hence the consonant clusters, which should give me a good range of rhymes, half rhymes, etc. Rik -- http://homepages.enterprise.net/rikroots/gevey/index.html The Gevey Language Resource.