From sentto-44114-16262-1033355996-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Sun Sep 29 20:23:51 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n10.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.65]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 17vr9Z-0007QD-01 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:23:25 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-16262-1033355996-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.197] by n10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Sep 2002 03:19:56 -0000 X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 30 Sep 2002 03:19:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 55447 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2002 03:19:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Sep 2002 03:19:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2002 03:19:55 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA14767; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209300331.XAA14767@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:19:22 +4400 To: nessus@free.fr (Lionel Vidal) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com (Lojban@Yahoogroups. Com) In-Reply-To: <008801c26796$56127240$ef2af8c1@ftiq2awxk6> from "Lionel Vidal" at Sep 29, 2002 10:57:00 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:19:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [lojban] Re: metre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 1750 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Lionel Vidal scripsit: > - a metre is a whole paragraph (in french it is called a poetic 'verset', "Stanza". > 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. > In other words, write good enough poetry, and the metre you chose > will be the native one :-) Indeed. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/GSaulB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/