--- Herman Miller ha tera roha a:
> I like the definition Wendy Carlos gave on a
> Nova program "What is Music?" a few years back.
> Music is "organized sound". With a broad enough
> interpretation of "organized", even some of the
> more unusual works by John Cage could fall under
> that definition.
> Now, most of our conlangs could also be described
> as "organized sound", so I guess that agrees perfectly
> with Sally Caves' description of conlangers as
> "word musicians"!
I guess all languages would count as music under that
definition: what is phonology but an organization of
sounds? Except sign language, of course (dance instead?),
and any purely written language.
Estel
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