| In a message dated 6/3/2001 9:27:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: Solemn "Often-Laugher" isactually not bad at all, since it fits Yes, getting better. How is "Laughing and Grief" going by the way. <>Is it time for another round on what Lojban poetry will be like, given that >neither rhyme nor rhythm are likely to play major roles? In any case, a >dance would be a bad candidate for an early contribution. Why? I don't understand the defeatism.> What defeatism? Defeatism assumes that nothing will work. Iwant to see some successes and that comes about by starting with things that can work, rather than (the Loglan/Lojban habit) "impossible" projects. No one will be happier than I if one of those "impossible" projects comes off, but thedeck is tacked against it, and the price of chosing those as targets is losing people out of frustrration or disgust. Dances are bad choices because they, unlike Lojban, have very tightly controlled rhythmic patterns. Wecan reporduce those patterns in Lojban but often at the cost of sense or even grammaticality. Eventually, we will work out a way of doing some of these thing, but we haven't yet. Do try, but don't complain if we pointout that you haven't made it. The Quadrille has four bars to the line, each bar four beats with the stress on the last beat. The chorus is slightly different, three iambs and a dactyl. |