Ah yes Tim or miss writing a funny poem is a speciality of mine!
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Sent: 10 September 2014 13:14
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Ah yes, there's old, and then there's 'old'. Misreading a funny poem is an
archaic speciality of mine.
On 10 Sep 2014, at 12:30, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Hi Tim thanks -I really meant to imply that he was so old that he
> would need archaic words!! P very old myself!
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Tim Allen
> Sent: 10 September 2014 11:12
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>
> My comment was aimed at John, not you Patrick. Your poem was very
> funny and yes, I think most of us have met people like the one in your
> poem - they give obscurity a bad name... ummmmmm.......
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>
> On 10 Sep 2014, at 10:59, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> Yes Tim here I wanted to imply a dig at his Age! Cheers P ancient
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Tim Allen
>> Sent: 10 September 2014 10:39
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>> Subject: Re: pat snap 643 )_-+*+-__-+*+-__-+*+-_(
>>
>> archaic and obscure words are windows and like any other words can be
>> used well or badly
>>
>> Tim A.
>>
>> On 10 Sep 2014, at 08:05, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Patrick,
>>> it seems to me that many, many poets do love to use deliberately
>>> obscure or archaic words, I wonder if there is any money to be made
>>> from compiling a dictionary of such along the lines of a Thesaurus?
>>> John
>>>
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>>>> From:
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>>>> Date: 09/09/2014 23:39
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>>>>
>>>> ARCHAIC WORDS
>>>>
>>>> he stated
>>>> rather loudly
>>>> rather pompously
>>>> over
>>> his latte
>>>> 'today I am
>>>> sorting out
>>>> researching
>>>> archaic words
>>>> for my
>>> next poem'
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> she wondered
>>>> eyebrows raised
>>>> if it was
>>>> yet
>>> another
>>>> autobiography
>>>> but did not
>>>> mention it
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pmcmanus
>>>> r573
>>>>
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