A little trick

[twelveoone]

having said that, the name's carrying unfortunate connotations -

sex offender, especially child abuser





any zine asking for nonce poetry might get some ... distasteful material submitted

Definitions of nonce on the Web:

* time being: the present occasion; "for the nonce"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* The Nonce was a hip-hop duo from Los Angeles, California, that was active in the 1990s (releasing material from 1992 to 1999). ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nonce

* In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce (sometimes spelled "nonse") is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_(slang)

Didn't they kill their manager, after he booked them a UK tour?


* In security engineering, a nonce is an abbreviation of number used once (it is similar in spirit to a nonce word). It is often a random or pseudo-random number issued in an authentication protocol to ensure that old communications cannot be reused in replay attacks. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_(cryptography)

* A randomly chosen value, different from previous choices, inserted in a message to protect against replays.
www.soberit.hut.fi/tik-76.115/98-99/palautukset/groups/Dynamics/ps/docs/terms.html

* A nonce value (a random number that supports digest authentication) is used to calculate the MD5 hash of the digest authentication password.
www-europe.cisco.com/en/US/docs/telepresence/cucm_cts/1_5/configuration/guide/cucm_cts_1_5_glos.html

* A unique text string used to detect replay attacks. No two generated nonce strings are the same.
publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzakh/rzakh002.htm

 

[twelveoone]

functional shift


Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb
you can find your own examples...
just a little something you might want to try

 

[theognis]

Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb
you can find your own examples...
just a little something you might want to try

This is why I think the best poetry is not easily accessible.

 

[butters]

Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb
you can find your own examples...
just a little something you might want to try

now this is really interesting!

an excerpt:

Research at the University of Liverpool has found that Shakespearean language excites positive brain activity, adding further drama to the bard's plays and poetry.

Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb. Researchers found that this technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands the function of the word within a sentence. This process causes a sudden peak in brain activity and forces the brain to work backwards in order to fully understand what Shakespeare is trying to say.

I think this is remarkably similar to how Latin works - when Latin is read as Latin, and we don't play 'hunt the verb, hunt the subject' . That is simply destructive of the process, in my opinion. Much of the power of Latin verse depends on the brain not knowing the true function of a word until the entire sentence or period has been delivered. High level Latin prose, which is also poetic, relies for its drama on this phenomenon.

Perhaps this intensely puzzle-like nature of Latin, and the arrangement of words in sentences by their relative importance, gives a similar frisson to the brain, and maybe this is what has lead to its supremacy as a literary language for such an extended period of time - and is part of the answer to why Shakespeare is still with us as an actively studied poet? Just thoughts......

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb
you can find your own examples...
just a little something you might want to try

One such is verbing