Yes, interesting. Your magazine might take up the cudgels for requiring (or at least influencing) English poems presented as tanka, haikai, etc. to qualify according to kana count.
Wouldn't hurt writers to learn something of the language itself if they want to use its poetic forms properly.
We might start with Tim and Alan. They learned Old English well enough to do their Beowulf. Hiragana and General Use kanji should be a snap for such young fellers as they be. I can lend them all the basic reference books-- Henshall, Nelson, Martin, Kenkyusha, etc.
Timothy? Alan? What say you?
G/W
[This message has been edited by Golias (edited May 03, 2004).]
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