http://blogjam.name/?p=8217 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:17:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogjam.name/?p=8217&cpage=1#comment-3290 Judy B. Gilbert Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:36:55 +0000 http://blogjam.name/?p=8217#comment-3290 Ictis: Here’s something from Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Gift of Time:
…As I listened to the muffled vowels of the Slovaks and the traffic-jams of consonants and the explosive spurts of dentals and sibilants, my mind’s eye automatically suspended an imaginary backcloth of the Slav heartlands behind the speakers…Then, at the astonishing sound of Magyar—a dactylic canter where the ictus of every initial syllable set off a troop of identical vowels with their accents all swerving one way like wheat-ears in the wind—the scene changed.

]]> http://blogjam.name/?p=8217&cpage=1#comment-3289 Marc Leavitt Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:09:42 +0000 http://blogjam.name/?p=8217#comment-3289 John:
It sounds like Mont St. Michel, but the geography is ridiculous. And as far I know, those monks didn’t mine tin.

]]> http://blogjam.name/?p=8217&cpage=1#comment-3287 John Maidment Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:15:12 +0000 http://blogjam.name/?p=8217#comment-3287 Thanks, Beatrice.

]]> http://blogjam.name/?p=8217&cpage=1#comment-3285 Beatrice Portinari Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:17:58 +0000 http://blogjam.name/?p=8217#comment-3285 Engaging stories through space and time…

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