Re: The beautifulest phonology

At 11:16 am -0500 23/3/02, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown scripsit:
>
>> But it occurs to me that SolReSol surely has the beautifullest - it's all
>> musical notes.  You can whistle it, or hum it; play on a piano, fiddle of
>> sitar or whatever; or sing it with your favorite vowel sound(s).
>
>Or signal it with lights or color swatches, or transmit it by wigwag
>or Morse telegraph.
Yes, lights or color swatches!  Wow, is there no end to the aesthetic
possibilities of this languages?

But, of course, these are merely ways of representing the phonology,
analogous to writing; it could be, and has been, written in standard
musical notation.  I seem to recall its inventor also provided it with a
cursive script of its own.

Ray.


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