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Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Friday, September 28, 2001, 3:04
On Thursday, September 27, 2001, at 06:20 PM, Steg Belsky wrote:

> Me and my brother had this idea after we got some recent version of MS > Word that came with one of those big multilingual fonts. We collected > all the different versions of "A", and created approximate tone > equivalents for each diacritic. There were around 25 different tones, > and we called the language "MariahCareyan Code" because the famous singer > with a 12-octave range (if i remember correctly) is the only person who > would be able to pronounce it correctly. :-) > > -Stephen (Steg) > "mew?"
Mew! ROTFL! That's hilarious. Wasn't there some _Time_ magazine article about Mariah Carey claiming that in one of her "squiggly" (my term, not theirs) solo passages they lost count after 50 notes or something? I wonder how her Vietnamese is. ;-) YHL