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Re: Tiny lexicon languages

From:Andrew Smith <hobbit@...>
Date:Friday, June 18, 1999, 23:18
Remember the song organ for birds is the syrinx which is found down at the
top of the lungs.  It's been pointed out that birds can sing two notes at
once, so starling or sparrow language could be denser than human language
because any one word can be 'coloured' or 'reinforced' by a second word.

- andrew.

Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

        Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
        Light dies before thy uncreating word:
        Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
        And Universal Darkness buries All.
                        - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.