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To: Dayuhan who wrote (21035)	8/9/2001 6:21:36 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 82486

I make no claims of any knowledge of poetry, least of all haiku. My comment yesterday about X and her haiku was based solely on the superficial resemblance of her posts to haiku. I didn't have a clue that there were any requirements about syllables. Having said that, I've studied Japanese just enough to comment on an odd difference in the place of syllables in Japanese as opposed to all the western languages I know. The Japanese alphabets don't have a separate entry for each sound, they have an entry for each syllable. So where English or Spanish or German would have a "t" and several vowels, Japanese has a separate entry for each syllable so you have "ta" and "te" and "to" and "ti" and "tu" and then there's "ra" and "re" etc. I don't know that this is relevant, but I wonder if, when we talk about syllables and haiku, we may be thinking incorrectly about what a syllable is. Karen

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