From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <
gpiotr@...>
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.
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How can you study linguistics without relating it to poetry and
literature? Where do linguists find their material to study? Poetry
and literature explore language to its limits. Perhaps, they even
finds inspiration in those strangely accidental connections between
unrelated words, which you reject because they do not fit into your
standard constraints. I am not mixing them up, because they are
already hopelessly mixed up without my help. ;-)
The Cybalist describes itself: "Discussing matters of Indo-European
history, linguistics and culture". Is studying culture (poetry,
literature etc) from the linguistic point of view not rigorous or
virtuous enough for you? Come off it, Piotr. :-)
Stefan