> But David, English IS Germanic
Erm, of the West Germanic language group, yes, but, as you know as well as I
do, English is Saxon-Danish-Latin-Norman-French with a lot of other pepper
too.
I was just interested in how far you were thinking of going 'against the
grain' of the common-law- I wasn't criticizing- that's all.
db
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> Thanks for the interesting replies. When, in the face impending
annihilation, we can calmly discuss our iambs and trochees, is there not
hope for us yet?
>
> David Bircumshaw wrote:
> <<are you hinting the desirablity of a Germanic
> systematizing of English?>>
>
> But David, English IS Germanic. But no, I wasn't. Nor was I suggesting
anything at all rigid in these "German" rhythms (quite the contrary).More
the old chestnut about if anyone has studied a thing systematically, it's
likely to be a German scholar.
>
> Mark Weiss wrote:
> <<This may be the first time in history that Lindsay and Holderlin have
been mentioned in the same breath.>>
>
> From the ridiculous to the sublime, eh? Though Old Lindsay was perhaps not
without his own touch of sideshow-huckster sublimity, as Ives clearly must
have felt.
>
> Actually I made a similar connection in an article about 15 years ago in
Michigan Quarterly, though I may not have actually mentioned Holderlin's
name.
>
> AS
>
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