> > > how would one not write dida? i would like to see an example. >> >> > Poems whose MAIN aim is to teach are didactic. But there are many poems > whose main aim is to give pleasure. doesn't pleasure serve as a reference point to a lesson that would guide all written word? > Rather than name any, let me just ask the simple question, what lessons do > symphonies teach us? aural patterns an syntactic patterns do the same add, subtract, multiply, divide etc... the lesson would be as subjective as a picture of an object with the word help. the intent by multitude of authors and diversity of crowds receiving the message makes the answer unattainable; but, fun to serve as a teaching mechanism that may serve a lesson. > Explicitly teach us. ha, i'm not a teacher. > --Bob >