Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

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