Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 29, 2001, 16:44 |
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At 3:16 am -0400 28/9/01, Adam Walker wrote:
>FIFTY TONES!!! Egads! I thought mine with 11 tones was horrid!
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>Adam
Yes, 50 does seem a bit much, at least for us humans.
SolReSol had no vowels or consonants 'cause it just used the notes of the
common major scale. You could psay "bip" or "mip" or whatever to each note
if you wished. But it could equally well be hummed or whistled.
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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