[B-Greek] What about Danker? (Re: Thomas Hardy, Liddell and Scott On the Completion of their Lexicon)

frjsilver at optonline.net frjsilver at optonline.net
Thu Jul 26 11:43:28 EDT 2007


MG KURIE has three syllables, KU - RI - E.

Father James

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Robie 
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:35 am
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] What about Danker? (Re: Thomas Hardy, Liddell and Scott On the Completion of their Lexicon)
To: frjsilver at optonline.net
Cc: "Carl W. Conrad" , B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org


Well, I didn't know how to write a good poem, so I wrote a bad one ;->

In modern Greek pronunciation, I believe that KURIE does indeed rhyme with "weary", no?

Jonathan


-----Original Message----- 
From: frjsilver at optonline.net 
Sent: Jul 25, 2007 7:38 PM 
To: Jonathan Robie 
Cc: "Carl W. Conrad" , B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org 
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] What about Danker? (Re: Thomas Hardy, Liddell and Scott On the Completion of their Lexicon) 

AAAAaaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhh!  (Quoth Charlie Brown.)

>From the meter, I could feel that this was built on Poe's _The Raven_ even before I got to 'weak and weary'.

It's hard for me to imagine KURIE rhyming with 'weary'.  Do people actually say such a thing?!

And I'd like to think that all this work is blessed, not god-forsaken.

But it was fun, anyway.

Father James
(playing poetry editor)

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Robie 
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:17 pm
Subject: [B-Greek] What about Danker? (Re: Thomas Hardy, Liddell and Scott On the Completion of their Lexicon)
To: "Carl W. Conrad" 
Cc: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org

> I think we need some poems for Frederick Danker ....
> 
> Here's one possible start:
> 
> Starting with the work of Bauer,
> Arndt and Gingrich, hour by hour,
> Thus did Frederick William Danker
> Clarify, revise, update
> Long he pondered, weak and weary,
> Every phrase containing KURIE.
> No man would have undertaken
> Such a task, so god forsaken
> Had he known ahead of time
> Just how much was on his plate.
> 
> Feel free to steal phrases from this to write a better and 
> funnier poem, 
> or start from scratch.
> 
> Jonathan
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