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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 > To: [log in to unmask] > 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 >> >>> ----Original Message---- >>> From: >> [log in to unmask] >>> Date: 09/09/2014 23:39 >>> To: >> <[log in to unmask]> >>> Subj: pat snap 643 )_-+*+-__-+*+-__-+*+-_ >> ( >>> >>> 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 >>>