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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span><span name="Brooks, Mark"></span></span><span><span name="Montgomery Michael"></span></span><span><span name="Veturlidi Oskarsson"></span></span><span><span name="Heinrich Becker"></span></span><span><span name="Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell"></span></span><span><span name="Theo Homan"></span></span><span class="gI"><span name="Howard Scott" class="gD">Howard Scott</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:howliosta@gmail.com">howliosta@gmail.com</a></span></span></span></p>








<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Literature" 2012.09.28 (01) [EN-NDS]</span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><span class="gI"></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It depends on whether or not you distinguish between moras and<br>
syllables (cf: <a href="http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/mora.html" target="_blank">http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/mora.html</a>, also<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_%28linguistics%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_(linguistics)</a></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">).<br><br>
If we just stick to the word "syllable" then "goi no koe" has five. In</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
Japanese each syllable (or mora) is equal in length. So each<br>
five-syllable line is the same length.<br><br>
I don't particularly like imposing the 5-7-5 syllables rule for haiku</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
in English or other European languages, since the number of accented<br>
syllables is generally more important than the total number of<br>
syllables. (But you can set whatever constraint you want for yourself<br>
when composing poems.)<br><br><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888">Howard</font></span><br><br></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">==============================</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">===========================<br>










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