Shy gypsy slyly spryly tryst by my crypt

[learnedax]

Cry, my crwth; Slyly ply thy gypsy rhythms.
Wry myth, spry nymphs, shy trysts spy thy hymns.
Sky & cwm fly twyndyllyngly
By thy pygmy syzygy

Comments

[new-man.livejournal.com]

twyndyllyngly?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Mm-hmm. Why?

(It's beyond merely archaic, but I like it... I don't think the adverb is actually found anywhere, but twyndyllyng is.)

[new-man.livejournal.com]

What would you say the adverb form of 'twin' is? 'Twinly'?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Hm, I see your point, it doesn't really work. Twinly would really be the adjectival form, which is I suppose the role it serves here, albeit in a rather odd way. The adverb would have to be something like "twinnishly"

Translation leads something to be desired

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Reticent, Agile Romani Sneaks to Grave For Hook-Up

...sounds like a News of the Weird article.


(the actual poem is kind of nice, in a e e cummings 'visual is more important than spoken aspect' way. It didn't even parse as English until the second glance. Had to look up all the Welsh-descended words, too.)

Re: Translation leads something to be desired

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think that has a nice ring to it... I'd change the Subject line to that, but surely no one would recognize it at that point.

Re: Translation leads something to be desired

[(Anonymous)]

A nyce ryng indyd.

Re: Translation leads something to be desired

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Whoops. Sorry. That was me.

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

What would we call that - a penpangram?