Edward Gibson

I mean, if I don't say a verb, then there won't be a verb, and so it'll be something else.

I mean, if I don't say a verb, then there won't be a verb, and so it'll be something else.

I mean, if I don't say a verb, then there won't be a verb, and so it'll be something else.

No. You're constrained by whatever language you're dealing with. Probably you have other constraints in poetry. Usually in poetry, there's multiple constraints that you want to... You want to usually convey multiple meanings is the idea, and maybe you have a rhythm or a rhyming structure as well. But you usually are constrained by the rules of your language for the most part. So you don't...

No. You're constrained by whatever language you're dealing with. Probably you have other constraints in poetry. Usually in poetry, there's multiple constraints that you want to... You want to usually convey multiple meanings is the idea, and maybe you have a rhythm or a rhyming structure as well. But you usually are constrained by the rules of your language for the most part. So you don't...

No. You're constrained by whatever language you're dealing with. Probably you have other constraints in poetry. Usually in poetry, there's multiple constraints that you want to... You want to usually convey multiple meanings is the idea, and maybe you have a rhythm or a rhyming structure as well. But you usually are constrained by the rules of your language for the most part. So you don't...

violate those too much. You can violate them somewhat, but not too much. So it has to be recognizable as your language. Like in English, I can't say, dogs two entered room ah. I mean, I meant, you know, two dogs entered a room. And I can't mess with the order of the articles and the nouns. You just can't do that. In some languages, you can mess around with the order of words much more.

violate those too much. You can violate them somewhat, but not too much. So it has to be recognizable as your language. Like in English, I can't say, dogs two entered room ah. I mean, I meant, you know, two dogs entered a room. And I can't mess with the order of the articles and the nouns. You just can't do that. In some languages, you can mess around with the order of words much more.

violate those too much. You can violate them somewhat, but not too much. So it has to be recognizable as your language. Like in English, I can't say, dogs two entered room ah. I mean, I meant, you know, two dogs entered a room. And I can't mess with the order of the articles and the nouns. You just can't do that. In some languages, you can mess around with the order of words much more.

I mean, you speak Russian. Mm-hmm. Russian has a much freer word order than English. And so, in fact, you can move around words in, you know, I told you that English has the subject, verb, object word order. So does Russian. But Russian is much freer than English. And so you can actually mess around with the word order.

I mean, you speak Russian. Mm-hmm. Russian has a much freer word order than English. And so, in fact, you can move around words in, you know, I told you that English has the subject, verb, object word order. So does Russian. But Russian is much freer than English. And so you can actually mess around with the word order.

I mean, you speak Russian. Mm-hmm. Russian has a much freer word order than English. And so, in fact, you can move around words in, you know, I told you that English has the subject, verb, object word order. So does Russian. But Russian is much freer than English. And so you can actually mess around with the word order.

So probably Russian poetry is going to be quite different from English poetry because the word order is much less constrained.

So probably Russian poetry is going to be quite different from English poetry because the word order is much less constrained.

So probably Russian poetry is going to be quite different from English poetry because the word order is much less constrained.

Well, you can just mess with different things in each language. And so in Russian, you have case markers, which are these endings on the nouns, which tell you how it connects, each noun connects to the verb, right? We don't have that in English. And so when I say, Mary kissed John, I don't know who the agent or the patient is, except by the order of the words, right?

Well, you can just mess with different things in each language. And so in Russian, you have case markers, which are these endings on the nouns, which tell you how it connects, each noun connects to the verb, right? We don't have that in English. And so when I say, Mary kissed John, I don't know who the agent or the patient is, except by the order of the words, right?

Well, you can just mess with different things in each language. And so in Russian, you have case markers, which are these endings on the nouns, which tell you how it connects, each noun connects to the verb, right? We don't have that in English. And so when I say, Mary kissed John, I don't know who the agent or the patient is, except by the order of the words, right?

In Russian, you actually have a marker on the end. If you're using a Russian name and each of those names, you'll also say, is it, you know, agent, it'll be the, you know, nominative, which is marking the subject, or an accusative will mark the object. And you could put them in the reverse order. You could put accusative first. You could put subject, you could put...

In Russian, you actually have a marker on the end. If you're using a Russian name and each of those names, you'll also say, is it, you know, agent, it'll be the, you know, nominative, which is marking the subject, or an accusative will mark the object. And you could put them in the reverse order. You could put accusative first. You could put subject, you could put...