Still pumpin' 'em out after all these years

[Laurence Horn]

poems newly discovered ==> new poems discovered

Maybe related to "an occasional passerby" or "raised an inquisitive eyebrow", a construction that Arnold could identify for us…

…Just checked, and in fact Arnold already did, in reference to extramarital toes being sucked 7 years ago:  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005186.html

It's called "displaced epithet" or "hypallage".  Not quite the same as Sappho's new poems being discovered, but a constructional cousin.

LH

On Feb 5, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> "Old poems" would have been more accurate, but then nobody would give a
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