From: nsn@vis.mu.oz.au (Nick NICHOLAS)
Message-Id: <199407131235.27405@krang.vis.mu.OZ.AU>
Subject: Re: New to Lojban
To: nsn@krang.vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 22:35:46 +1000 (EST)
Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu
In-Reply-To: <199407131225.27386@krang.vis.mu.OZ.AU> from "Nick NICHOLAS" at Jul 13, 94 10:25:43 pm
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=telegraphese): I use an alexandrine (dedum dedum dedum, dedum dedum dedum),
=which gives you four extra syllables per line 

As you'll have found if you actually counted the syllables in my translation,
an alexandrine (in Esperanto, as opposed to English) actually goes
dedum dedum dedumdee, dedum dedum dedumdee. Which makes it ideal for
penultimate-stressed languages. In fact, I strongly believe that alexandrine,
not pentameter, is *the* meter for Esperanto and Lojban --- whereas pentameter
seems to fit Klingon as snugly as English (though Klingon pentameter is
rather rough-and-ready.) (And Modern Greek only ever uses iambic heptameter.
See the things you can learn by following Lojban list? ;) ).

Nick.