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Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

From:Fabian <lajzar@...>
Date:Monday, April 2, 2001, 17:15
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From: "Yoon Ha Lee" <yl112@...>
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Sent: 02 April 2001 01:40
Subject: Re: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)


> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Nik Taylor wrote: > > > Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > > > Er...where can I find a definition of "syllable-timed" rhythm? > > > > A language wherein every syllable is pronounced with the same length, as > > opposed to stress-timed, like most dialects of English, wherein there is > > a roughly equal time between *stressed* syllables (Carribean English is > > syllable-timed, which contributes to its rather distinct, and, IMO, > > beautiful, rhythm). Japanese is a mora-timed language. > > Ah! What other kinds of -timed are there? > > > That's another beautiful language. I've been watching Sailor Moon > > subtitled lately, and sometimes I like to just have it on without > > watching, just to listen to the Japanese. :-) Of course, it's also > > really fun to hear them throw in random bits of English "No > > puraburemu!", and, of course, their attacks. :-) > > <laugh> I haven't seen Sailor Moon, but yes, I know what you mean. Once > I got past the first year of watching anime when I was *only* paying > attention to the subtitles, I discovered that I liked the sound of spoken > Japanese quite a lot.
That reminds me of a little incident in Nagoya. They have a small tourist trap consisting of some large greenhouses with tropical fruit. In one section they have a game, in which it names a fruit in English, and teh player has to press the appropriate button. /e:go de sutorobari:/ was heard. being English, I theoretically should have recognised it instantly. I think the two extra syllables threw me. It wasn't English, it was katakana eigo. btw Yoon Ha, do you have a romanisation scheme for Korean? -- Fabian "You know, my uncle was a sailor in the merchant marines who traded beads and songs with the natives on various islands until he sold them a really really bad song and the natives forced him to sing it over and over without food or water until he died."

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