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Re: A DISTURBING proposal! (was Re: Personal langs and converse of aux)

From:Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
Date:Thursday, February 8, 2001, 7:40
On 7 Feb, Andreas Johansson wrote:

>I read somewhere that people have two levels of this kind of noises. When >they're not too badly in pain/wrecked with grief/etc they use >conventionalized interjections like English /autS/, Swedish /aj/ etc. When >they're in extreme pain or similar they'll howl inarticulate vocalic sounds >(like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!") that are the same in all language groups >(tho' there's unsystematic individual variation of course).
Sounds reasonable. Dan Sulani -------------------------------------------------------------------- likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a. A word is an awesome thing. .hotmail.com.