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
>
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> 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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>>>
>>> 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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