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(09-06-2015, 06:57 AM)abu nuwas Wrote: My friend, by giving a possible alternative for the title alone, I not only seized the gauntlet, but challenged anyone to produce their own, new, improved, version of Ms Sitwell's title alone -- the rest of the poem has plenty of inversions, too. I would concede that it was written in special times. Her natural liking for the archaic may have had a resonance which later generations, or foreigners, might miss. As for me having to show how valuable this device is -or that it is a device - I think that puts the burden of proof the wrong way about. If I like bananas, and you tell me I ought not to, the onus rests with you . Since the old saying about not be able to argue about taste remains as true as ever, that might be difficult.
I am afraid you waited too long, old fruit, I have lost my enthusiasm for the argument.
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Bumping this for Mahjong. Some good discussion of the topic here.
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The prudent (and possibly prudish) answer to this is in the definition of the word syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
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Thanks for posting, Lizziep. An excursion into anastrophe by detour of PigPen personalities.
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Some languages -- Japanese and many Asian ones, for instance -- possess very few
rules about word order (why haiku is so much easier to write in Japanese). English, up
until quite recently, was much more tolerant of such. This current obsession with it has
much to do with the advent of free verse. Passing fads...
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