Re: [tied] Poetry (was: *swesor - Retraction)

Richard:

>After you cited French at me, I thought you'd appreciate the
>difference between masculine and feminine rhymes, and therefore the
>dubiousness of cross-gender rhymes.

The earliest Indo-European ("Indo-Anatolian") had animate and inanimate
gender, not the masculine-feminine-neuter contrast. Therefore *pxte:r
and *maxte:r are really the same gender, animate. But I think that's
beside the point because it's the semantic pairing that matters.
"Father" and "mother" form a natural pair in any language.

>I trust one can have rhymes without their being used in poetry.

Yes and you're probably right about IE poetry.

>Rcihard.

Oh, Richard, I'm disappointed in your spelling skills :(


- gLeN


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