Development Poem by Douglas Scotney
Development
It was sophisticated
to call a typewriter that,
after the Greek typtein to strike,
and not to call it a tap-tap-tapper,
after the French taper to tap.
It's too fancy to say
'envelop' (from the French) ,
so English goes to Middle English,
and tweaks 'wrappen' to 'wrap'.
So as I read this I visualized a 1920's flapper as she tapped out a sentence or two dressed in a boa and high heeled shoes, perhaps not French or Greek but well keyed and marvelously developed.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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5/3/2024 6:16:54 AM # 1.0.0.1119
By the way your details with words and inventions are quite marvelous too.