Hard Question of the Weekend

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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May 23, 2008 – 10:35 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged , | Post Comments (6) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."
  1. Hard Question of the Weekend wrote:
    May 24, 2008 at 12:19 am   Link

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

  2. Kevin Winters wrote:
    May 24, 2008 at 1:10 am   Link

    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 wrote:
    May 24, 2008 at 3:05 pm   Link

    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 wrote:
    May 24, 2008 at 3:06 pm   Link

    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 wrote:
    May 24, 2008 at 3:11 pm   Link

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  6. MedicineMan wrote:
    May 24, 2008 at 11:07 pm   Link

    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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