Re: Musical conlangs (was: Poetique)
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 8, 2004, 23:41 |
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--- Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 1/7/2004 8:33:02 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> elemtilas@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> >Howdoyouknowhowtodividethissentence?
>
> That's easy, because there are 26 letters in
> the alphabet and hence (for
> example) 17,576 possible 3-letter sequences.
Well, you've lost me!
> With such a large number of possible
> sequences, most of them will not be actual
> words, so finding word boundaries
> is easy. With only 7 notes, as in solresol,
> there are only 343 different
> 3-note sequences.
Actually, it's easy because you are familiar with
the English language and have 'internalised' what
constitutes valid words. If I randomised all
those letters, you would also know that they did
not constitute an English sentence.
The reason why I asked that question in that way
was to get at the very reason for the pause after
each word. I don't know anything about Solresol
in particular, so I may be wrong: I suspect that
a person familiar with Solresol will not need a
distinct pause between each word for the same
reason he doesn't need one in English.
> If you propose a musical language with 26
> notes instead of 7, then the
> problem is considerably reduced -- but other
> problems are introduced. I'm not sure
> I could distinguish that many notes when
> listening to someone play a musical
> conlang.
That's only a shade over two standard octaves.
Of course, I'm not sure why Solresol is
restricted to three note words either.
Padraic.
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