Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Phil Sumpter" <philsumpter AT hotmail.com>]

Joe,

you're one of the few to have agreed so far. On my blog two others have shown 
disagreement (see comments: 
http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2009/05/translating-qatalyiqtol-sequence-in-ps.html).
 I certainly would >like< Niccacci's system to work, as I find it "clean" and 
simple. 

Dave,

>poetry in every language makes its own "rules" in accordance with the poet's 
>immediate need<

This is new to me (not that I'm an expert!). I can't think of any examples in 
English off the top of my head ... On the relation between prose and poetry, 
I recently read the following:

"as in most other languages, poetry extends and plays on normal linguistic 
rules and forms." (R. S. Hendel, Margins of the Hebrew Verbal System," 153.) 
Therefore, to understand the verb in poetry, it is important to begin with a 
good understanding of the system in prose, "from which poetry takes its point 
of departure." (ibid.)

Philip Sumpter

http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/
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On 7 May 2009 at 15:42, Phil Sumpter wrote:

> Joe,
>
> you're one of the few to have agreed so far. On my blog two others have 
> shown disagreement (see comments: 
> http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2009/05/translating-qatalyiqtol-sequence-in-ps.html).
>  I certainly would >like< Niccacci's system to work, as I find it "clean" 
> and simple.
>
> Dave,
>
> >poetry in every language makes its own "rules" in accordance with the 
> >poet's immediate need<
>
> This is new to me (not that I'm an expert!). I can't think of any examples 
> in English off the top of my head

You could start with almost anything by Ogden Nash...

Dave Washburn