> Why not,
>
> moo
> bow
> wow
>
> mj
As we seem to be moving into minimalist haiku ... [***]
P o o l.
P e o p l
e p l o p!
C o o l.
[Edwin Morgan, +Collected Poems+ (p. 174)]
Originally in +The Second Life+, where I'd thought it was entitled "Haiku
after Basho", but I think I'm misremembering that.
Basho, translated R.H.Blyth:
The old pond
A frog jumps in
The sound of water.
R.
[***] Completely unconnected, but by association. Has anyone read Andrew
Radford, +Syntax: a minimalist introduction+ (1997) and if so can they
explain to me (a) just what the hell it means, and (b) how it relates to
Chomsky's earlier work in +Syntactic Structures+? It's *supposed to be the
latest spin of transformational grammar, at least until or unless Chomsky,
as he's rumoured to be doing, takes a brief break from politics and returns
to linguistics. But (so what else is new?) I can't get my head around it.
RR.
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