From nessus@free.fr Mon Sep 30 04:04:27 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: nessus@free.fr X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 30 Sep 2002 11:04:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 53474 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2002 11:04:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Sep 2002 11:04:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mel-rto3.wanadoo.fr) (193.252.19.233) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2002 11:04:25 -0000 Received: from mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.69) by mel-rto3.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D760D7C00E63F99 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:04:24 +0200 Received: from ftiq2awxk6 (80.9.200.231) by mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D80120400A795BA for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:04:24 +0200 Message-ID: <000f01c26872$e38e27e0$e7c80950@ftiq2awxk6> To: "Lojban@Yahoogroups. Com" References: <200209300331.XAA14767@mail2.reutershealth.com> Subject: Re: [lojban] metre Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:15:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 From: "Lionel Vidal" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=47678341 X-Yahoo-Profile: cmacinf John Cowan: > > To take the latin example again, before Virgile, the native metre was > > thought to be the 'vers saturnien', but after Virgile, the > > 'hexametre dactylique' (sorry I don't know the english glosses for > > technical poetic terms), > Just what you'd think, for once: Saturnian verse, dactylic hexameter. I should have known better: after all, as I read in one of your pages English is essentially a dialect of French. :-) -- Lionel