Re: OT: Poetic License

Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> Why is it that song lyrics can get away with saying what would otherwise be
> terribly sappy/trite and make it sound romantic/poetic?
>
> ObConlang:  How much work have you done on figurative or poetic language in
> your conlangs?  For myself, I have very little.  I only just got a
> literary-register form of the first-person pronoun.
For one of my languages, I have a (self-imposed) design requirement that
it be easy to use for metrical poetry. It hasn't become an issue yet,
since I still haven't started working on a lexicon, and I don't know a
whole lot about prosody. I may have a couple of free-floating particles
that might be used to pad the meter a bit if necessary.