Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] computer haiku

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Mikhail Kovalenko wrote:

> Jonathan King wrote:
> > Anyway, I think the following slight modification to Mikhail's 
> > version would make it haiku:
> > 
> >    Desolate buildings
> >    Where tumbleweed roams freely:
> >    Meeting in progress.
> > 
> > Now it's 5-7-5 and has a single strong cut.  Obviously, there are 
> > many other ways this could have been achieved, but this one works.
> 
> Come on now, it's all how you say it! It sure isn't easy trying to
> fit a foreign language into a shape of another foreign language...  
> :) *sigh*

Funny you should mention this.  Part of my 3rd grader's homework
this week involves writing haiku.  While he was walking home from
school today, he was talking about something being "arnge" at which
point my wife corrected his pronunciation to "orange".  (This is
looking like a losing battle; we've begun calling his twang the
'electable accent'.)

"Oh, right,"  he replies.  And then with excitement, "Hey wait! That
means my last haiku will work after all!"  Being a fluent and alas
native speaker of Ozonics (thanks Matt!), he was left a syllable
short in one of his verses...  

Tonight after the kids went to bed, we discussed the possibility of
teaching him a second foreign language since English and Ozark only
take you so far in the world.  Seriously, native speakers of French
don't seem to be thick on the ground (we both know some French, but
aren't fluent speakers), but Bosnian, Russian, Korean, and Chinese
all seem like possibilities given the kids he knows at school.  Are
there any weekend programs in Columbia in these or any other foreign
languages?

jking




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