October 10, 2021

OCT 10, a brief saga (exemplary exemplification): ablauts and verb past-tenses

 








Authors' Note: Ablaut (AHB-lowt) is a linguistic term, derived from German, for a vowel transition resulting in a change in word meaning. Such changes are the basis of the simple past tense and the past participle in a substantial proportion of irregular English verbs, as exemplified in the second and third stanzas. 

To review the blogpost displaying our entire collection of verses dealing with "Exemplary Exemplification", click HERE

 
 For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three or more stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary iLimerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take from several weeks to over a year for completion. 

  Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and the OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. 

To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog, proceed to 'Domestic Turkey'.
To access the most recent previous 'brief saga', back up to ''Cormorant Rookery''.  
To access all of our 'brief sagas' by the year of their creation, click on your selection below.



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