Re: ASCII Poem
From Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net>
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· 6 Oct 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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> > >> THE > > >> ELEPHANT > > >> The elephant's got > > >> ___.---.___ a long trunk he uses to > > >> .' ( ) '. get a drink. I can think > > >> ) /)' '( ) of one more use for it. > > >> ',_( ';-;'\_,' To check his > > >> |-| /(feet)\ > > >> (") (( don't)) > > >> stink > > >> !Well > > >> I had > > >> a go! > > >> PjP > > > > I am not a native-english-speaker, but I would delete > > that comma after 'trunk'... > > Thanks, I reckon that's right. Originally I was trying to get the reader > to pause there so that the rets of the poem would flow. > > I have removed the comma. Although it leaves a strange gap now. Oh well! While we're on the subject of grammar and punctuation :-) Try replacing the period after "it" with a colon and use a lowercase "t" in "to". The sentance would then read: THE ELEPHANT The elephant's got ___.---.___ a long trunk he uses to .' ( ) '. get a drink. I can think ) /)' '( ) of one more use for it: ',_( ';-;'\_,' to check his |-| /(feet)\ (") (( don't)) stink !Well I had a go! PjP -- ___________________________________________________________________ | . . | * http://www2.southwind.net/~natedac/ * | | _ _ _|_ _ _| _ _ |-----------------------------------------| | |/ \`_| | /_)/ |`_|/ ` | GCS d- s++:++ a-- C++ UB>++ P+ L>++ !E | | | |(_| \_ \_ \_|(_|\__ | W++ N++ K- w--- M- V? PS PE Y+ PGP- t++ | | at southwind dot net | 5 X+ R tv@ b+ DI(++) D+ G++ e+ h+ r- y- | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a3385051c4c04ec9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net> Subject: Re: ASCII Poem Date: 1998/10/06 Message-ID: <Pin...@onyx.southwind.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 398250514 References: <Pin...@leofric.coventry.ac.uk> <Pin...@leofric.coventry.ac.uk> <361...@news.demon.nl> <Pin...@leofric.coventry.ac.uk> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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