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The poem discussed has been translated many times in many different ways. There’s even a book, by Hiroaki Sato, that collects more than a hundred versions in En
by tkgally 2y ago
The poem discussed has been translated many times in many different ways. There’s even a book, by Hiroaki Sato, that collects more than a hundred versions in English [1]. Here are a few:
R. H. Blyth
The old pond.
A frog jumps in—
Plop!
Clara A. Walsh
An old-time pond, from off whose shadowed depth
Is heard the splash where some lithe frog leaps in.
Inazo Nitobe
Into a old pond
A frog took a sudden plunge,
Then is heard a splash.
Harold G. Henderson
An ancient pond;
Plash of the water
When a frog jumps in.
Allen Ginsberg
The old pond
A frog jumped in,
Kerplunk!
Limerick
There once was a curious frog
Who sat by a pond on a log
And, to see what resulted,
In the pond catapulted
With a water-noise heard round the bog.
[1] https://search.worldcat.org/title/31783352 https://search.worldcat.org/title/31783352
- fuzztester 2y ago>Limerick Speaking of limericks, here is a good one that I read in a nonsense poetry book as a kid; it was called "The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense". It was meant for kids. The limerick was a little subtle, at least for me at that time, but I figured it out after a bit, and had a good laugh: Into the drinking well Which the plumber built her Aunt Eliza fell We must buy a filter
- squircle 2y agoSee, this is the sort of thing I expect chatgpt/copilot to produce. Instead, I ask for a joke and it returns the most flat-lined humor. Guess I'll have to run my own local models.
- fuzztester 2y agoGadzooks! With ChatGPT et al, we must lower our expectations, instead of having https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations
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