May
23

Hard Question of the Weekend

10:35 pm Just For Fun

Is Jabberwocky the best nonsense poem in the English language? If not, then in what language is it the best nonsense?

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  1. Hard Question of the Weekend @ 2008-05-24 12:19 am

    [...] Original post by Thinking Christian [...]

  2. Kevin Winters @ 2008-05-24 1:10 am

    I don’t know: Dr. Seuss did an exceptional job in may works to use “nonsense” words (which is actually a misnomer, in my mind), though he focused more on objects than on adjectives…

  3. Ahswan @ 2008-05-24 3:05 pm

    Jabberwocky is really the brilliant English nonsense poem, and I doubt it can be matched. But, that wasn’t your question, was it?  So, now I’m wondering, how in the world could it be translated into any other language and still have the same impact?

  4. Kevin Winters @ 2008-05-24 3:06 pm

    Couldn’t one simply translate the words that do make sense and retain the ones that don’t?

  5. aldenswan.com » Blog Archive » Hard question of the weekend @ 2008-05-24 3:11 pm

    [...] Gilson asks: Is Jabberwocky the best nonsense poem in the English language? If not, then in what language is it [...]

  6. MedicineMan @ 2008-05-24 11:07 pm

    There’s a bunch of non-English versions here:http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/translations/index.html(try the Latin on for size)…And, one in Hebrew, here: http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/hebrew-wocky.html

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