Re: CHAT: Parallelism

Dr.X" wrote:
> The ideas that I had seemed a little lame... For example one could have two
> languages, one in which each word consisted only of vowels, the other in
> which each word consisted only of consonants. The latter would be
> syllabified, and you could stick any vowel into each syllable. Then, when
> speaking, the vowels would say one thing and the consonants another.
I once contemplated an alien lang in which the speakers could make two
simultaneous sound-streams, perhaps having two mouths.  I never
developed it, but one possibility I considered was to make one mouth
give content words, like nouns and verbs, and the other to give
information about the structure of the sentence, the equivalent of cases
and the like.

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