Re: Musical terms (Was: Playing the banjo (Was: Latin help))

--- Douglas Koller <laokou@...> wrote:

> From: Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...>
>
> > --- Douglas Koller <laokou@...> wrote:
>
> > > Seems to me I
> > > was going to have at least four words for
> "play,"
> > > corresponding to the four musical groups .
>
> > Funnily enough, so was I.  Or at least, separate
> words
> > for "play" depending on whether you pluck/strum
> > strings, blow into it or strike something.
>
> > > Lexicon appears to indicate I never got a
> roundtuit.
>
> > A pity.  But I can't blame you, as neither did I.
>
> Problem solved:
>
> strings:
>
> kferzhön - play, a stringed instrument with a bow
> teten - pluck (staccato)
> rhküf - play, a string instrument with rapid finger
> movements, as Spanish guitar playing, or Chinese
> pipa playing)
> edzön - strum
>
> woodwinds:
>
> mbazh - play (a wind instrument; think "embouchure")
> flutes may have to wait
>
> brass:
>
> pföngen - play (brass - don't brass instruments
> involve going mbrmbrmbrmbr into the mouthpiece?)
>
> percussion:
>
> daumöth - beat (this word already existed)
>
> > I have "xantur", meaning to sing, "duas", meaning
> a
> > musical note or tone, "xanse", meaning a song,
> > "axbat", meaning a musical instrument, and
> "xerrùr",
> > meaning to play a stringed instrument.
>
> I like the look of this. But what is the value of
> "x?" May we assume that other letters, more or less,
> have intuitive values?
>
"x" is /S/.  But yeah, pretty much all of the other
characters have intuitive values, apart from "w" =
/gw/.  (Doesn't appear in any of the above egs, but
just FWIW).

> > Over 3200 words, and I can't say "Does this
> > milk taste sour?"!
>
> I feel your pain! But, I think I can pull this
> sentence off:
>
> Chau ngurs henger la chüa-u hözçeth?
>
> the milk-nom. this-nom. present-aux. sourly
> taste-interrogative
>
> Kou
>

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