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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (21013)	8/8/2001 11:42:31 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Well, if we're going to steal -- sorry, adopt -- their art form, I think we have an obligation to adopt it their way. I would resent it if the Japanese started writing poems they called Sonnets but only wrote them in 12 lines and didn't follow any of the accepted sonnet rhyme forms. They're free, of course, to write poems in any format or metre or number of lines or rhyme schemes they choose to. But I don't think they should call them sonnets unless they adhere to the form. I guess I'm a purist about that. But if we start letting anything be called by the name of an art form which has a very specific meaning, we wind up with slop and terms lose their precision and therefore usefulness.