ext_17913 ([identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2011-04-24 05:43 am (UTC)

It's all right; I'm not sure how many more I need.

Ah, but are any of them you have settings of Irish-language modernist poetry? With lines like "Mo scornach slochta le slaghdán"*?

I can't now find the CD that's in question, but when I do find it, I'll send you the track.

*One of the things that annoys me most about Modern English is how unfriendly towards long runs of alliteration it is. I'm tossing translations round in my head that try to preserve some trace of that--"My throat stopped with a snot-cold"; "My throat throttled with a [something that equals a cold and starts with þ]"--and none of them really work.

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