<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Nonsense verse that has been generated via phono-semantic matching (PSM) can be reverse-engineered via PSM. <i>The Red Wheelbarrow</i> by William Carlos Williams seems to be a good example.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" style="" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i style="">The Red Wheelbarrow</i> is a famous poem, presumably with some
"hidden meaning".<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here is my own
explication via transliteration of <i>T</i></font><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">he Red Wheelbarrow </i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">by William<b> </b></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Carlos Williams:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">so much depends upon<br>
a red wheel barrow<br>
glazed with rain water<br>
beside the white chickens.<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I think it means:<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">so much depends upon<br>
ONE MAN<br>
AS the CORPOREALIZATION OF the MESSIAH<br>
therefore, SING, LET US REJOICE FOR the SON<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here's why. Using @ =
aleph, KH = het, kh = khaf, 3 = aiyin, a: = vowel "aye"<br>
and [T] for the
ancient sound of the shin <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">wheelbarrow = KHaDoFeN < Aramaic KHaD = one + @oFeN = wheel.<br>
red wheelbarrow = KHaDoFeN @aDoM<br>
KHaD <a href="mailto:BeN-@aDaM" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">BeN-@aDaM</span></a> =
one + man/human/person<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">rain water = Ma:-GeSHeM. Glazed = Z'khookhi.<br>
with rainwater glazed = B'Ma:GeSHeM Z' khookhi<br>
B'MaGSHiM MaSHiaKH = as [the] corporealization of + [the] Messiah<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Beside the = 3aL YaD
Ha-<br>
3aL YaDa: Ha- = by
means of, through; because of [this]<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">white chickens = TaRNaGoLoT LaVaN<br>
[T]aR NaGiLaT LaBeN = sing, let us rejoice + for
[the] son<br>
<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did Williams do
this with conscious intent? <span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did Williams know
enough Hebrew to implement this process? <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If this poem were
written by Lewis Carroll, I would say "yes". Carroll was fluent in
all of the languages mentioned in <i><a href="https://books.google.co.il/books?id=xabjCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT194&lpg=PT194&dq=%22I+said+it+in+Hebrew%E2%80%94I+said+it+in+Dutch%E2%80%94++++I+said+it+in+German+and+Greek:+But+I+wholly+forgot+(and+it+vexes+me+much)++++That+English+is+what+you+speak!%22&source=bl&ots=B_xG-2MmGu&sig=DCt5O4nnEtw4C2SPrppTsXHw6ZI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKs4nC-oLXAhULXRoKHdhPBXAQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=%22I%20said%20it%20in%20Hebrew%E2%80%94I%20said%20it%20in%20Dutch%E2%80%94%20%20%20%20I%20said%20it%20in%20German%20and%20Greek%3A%20But%20I%20wholly%20forgot%20(and%20it%20vexes%20me%20much)%20%20%20%20That%20English%20is%20what%20you%20speak!%22&f=false">The Hunting of the Snark</a></i>. <br>
Williams’ mother was a <span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Puerto Rican woman of<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Basque_Country" title="Northern Basque Country"><span style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">French Basque</span></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">and<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Netherlands" title="History of the Jews in the Netherlands"><span style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dutch Jewish</span></a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">descent. </span> <span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams</a><span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Perhaps he learned
some Hebrew from his mother?<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Perhaps he “engineered”
this poem by doing the exact opposite of what I did?<span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Israel
"izzy" Cohen<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Petah Tikva, Israel<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4" style="" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:cohen.izzy@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="">cohen.izzy@gmail.com</a></font></p></div></div>