Re: Musical conlangs (was: Poetique)

Staving Andreas Johansson:
>Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:
>
>
> > > While some are certainly practical, others are
> > > IMO rather bizarre - and this is one such.
> >
> > Well, perhaps not so bizarre as all that.
> > Solresol was invented around 1817 or so - there
> > were no radios, barely any steam ships. Intership
> > communications consisted pretty much of
> > semaphores, flares and shouting.
>
>Firing cannons and waving flags were also pretty common. (The former grantedly
>mostly for the simplest of messages.)
>
Such as "Take that, you filthy swine!"

Pete