Re: [tied] Re: Ford -furta- fare

It all depends what you're after. Both poetry and linguistics are worthwhile occupation but please don't mix them up. If we want to study things like the origin of words, language relationships, etc., rigour is a virtue.

Piotr

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From: stefan.grass

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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:19 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Ford -furta- fare

Don't you think that allowances should be made for the dynamic aliveness of the human language? Logical rules are the linguists' metalled roads, and that's fine for the law-abiding pedestrians but poets, writers and lovers of words like to find the own paths and explore other possibilities. Very unnerving for the former, but great fun for the latter.