Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

On Thursday, September 27, 2001, at 03:51 PM, Roger Mills wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>> Another idea I've toyed with is a "chordal" language, whose speakers
>> could
>> produce multiple pitches and articulations simultaneously; words would
>> consist of chords, series of chords would produce sentences.  I'm sure
>> there are other ways to cut the pie, though.
>
> I seem to recall that there is such a one; listed in the links at Mark
> Rosenfelder's _zompist_ site, or someone else's similar site.....All but
> impossible for us lowly humans.
Wouldn't surprise me in the list.  :-)  I'll take a look for it when I
have time--thanks for the reference!

Jaa ne,
YHL