Talk:Double dactyl

message: The second line of the Dick van Dyke poem has to be "Penis van Lesbian."  That's what scans, and what sets up the humor.  My changing it back after an anon changed it to "Dick van Dyke" was reverted as vandalism.
This does raise the issue that the poem is, indeed, obscene (inasmuch as "penis" and "lesbian" are obscene words).  There are plenty of fine examples we could offer, so there's not a lot of benefit in offering an obscene one.  If I have any further trouble with that one I plan to replace it. LWizard @ 02:42, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not vandalism

message: Whilst I recognize the mad wiki craze to link every single bloody noun, verb, and concept, in an article, don't editors think that the resulting formatting chaos rather detracts from the verse? Greglocock (talk) 11:52, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I think it aids understanding quite a bit.  Without them I'd be like "'Nicomedophily' -- huh, weird word.  Oh and look, Google shows its only use in this exact poem.  Guess I don't get this one."  Whereas with the link I hover over it quickly to see what it links to and am like "I see what you did there."  LWizard @ 05:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Then put a glossary underneath. Greglocock (talk) 06:00, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That rather defeats the point of hyperlinks, where the word in question can act perfectly well as the link! I'm not sure what you mean by "formatting chaos" - it doesn't mess up the formatting at all on my screen, merely shows the word in blue as an indicator that I can click on it if I wish. 143.252.80.100 (talk) 15:22, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: IF the CREATORS of those POEMS had WANTED to USE Fonts and colour as PART of the POEM then they WOULD HAVE INCLUDed them. They DIDN't. Greglocock (talk) 02:51, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Links inside poems

message: I have removed the quoted poem by Piet Hein, which has only the meter and rhyme scheme of a double dactyl:
#The first stanza doesn't include a double-dactylic name.
#The name it does use isn't in line 2.
#The second stanza doesn't contain a double-dactylic word.
A mathematical example by Piet Hein, dedicated to Martin Gardner.
::William Frucht (editor), Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings (New York: John Wiley, 1999)
:Parallelism
:"Lines that are parallel
:Meet at infinity!"
:Euclid repeatedly,
:Heatedly, urged
:Until he died, and so 
:Reached that vicinity:
:In it he found that the
:Damned things diverged.
--Thnidu (talk) 02:39, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piet Hein example 

message: In the examples, I've tagged the double-dactylic name that refers to the subject of each poem with a single asterisk, and the double-dactylic word in the second half with two asterisks, with matching tags in the description of the form. It's noteable that 
*the Jaksch example seems to cheat with "Gay Caius Julius" for the name, where apparently only "Caius Julius" is the name. But "gay" here can be seen as a short form of "Gaius", which is itself an alternate form of "Caius", and therefore a kind of punning nickname in English for "C/Gaius Julius".
*the Gaiman example doesn't actually have a double-dactyl name
*the Bellairs example has two (but the second one doesn't affect the form)
--Thnidu (talk) 05:33, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagging double-dactyl names and words