http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/002696.html Kristen Hanson: U.C. Berkeley: "A Linguistic View of Meter" "To say that iambic pentameter consists of five weak-strongs except when it doesn't does not advance the discussion very far." "The extraordinary metrical and semantic density of Hamlet's soliloquies..." The moraic trochee as a psychological reality: "You can say fan-f***ing-tastic, or ala-f***ing-baster, but you cannot say fantas-f***ing-tic, or a-f***ing-labaster--at least, not if you want anybody to sit next to you voluntarily." en-us http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/meta_et_cetera.html So another rainy day at Tufts University. I've handed a bunch of graded papers to my boss here (I have several bosses - it's not so bad, since I count for at least a half-dozen mortal employees), and am taking