Re: musical talk?

Baba wrote:
> Can anyone help me get info' about an auxlang called something like
> "solreme"? It uses 7 notes (sounds) to create a whole language.
I know a little about it, I've found some sources on the Net, but I
don't remember where.

Anyways, the idea was that the seven notes (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti)
could be used as phonemes, thus it would be a language that could be
sung.  I suppose you could probably sing a natural language, while
encoding another message in that language (tho I doubt it would sound
very musical).  Anyways, pronouns were one note each, prepositions and a
few other words were two notes (42 combinations, since there were none
with the same note repeated twice), some basic words were three notes,
and there were some opposites (maybe all opposites, I don't know) which
were formed by flipping the notes around, so that if (randomly
generated) refaso meant "good", then sofare would be "bad".  There were
some 4-note words, but I don't think there were any 5-note words.  The
name comes from the French version of the notes' names, which used sol
instead of so and a couple of other differences.  That's all I know.

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