Re: Natural Language Praised

Someone wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > There's _still_ no reason why poets couldn't write in Latin today.
> yes, that is the reason. Latin by now lacks the echo of the spoken word
> plus the echo of life (the echo of the mass media, of people at home,
> of other poets.

When Kurzweil's Singularity nears, all recorded "dead" languages could
begin showing galvanic stirrings indistinguishable from life. As a
well-recorded old language and still a prestigious one, Latin is in a
good position to be among the first to revive.

> you seem to think that a poem is a verbal artifice, something like
> a cross [_sic_] word puzzle. it is not!

If it's not a verbal contraption (as Auden called it), what is it?

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