Re: Tonal Languages taken to extremes

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> I actually considered that with "meep" [mip] since I do have perfect pitch
> =^) but decided it was too much of a hassle, especially if anyone else
> were to understand it.  (Besides, I already meep at random people.)  It'd
> be a fun concept for an alien conlang, though.
My conpeople have very sensitive pitch perception, and I once toyed with
the idea of a conlang that would take advantage of that.  It would have,
say, 12 consonants, 5 vowels, only CV syllables, but 50 tones, allowing
for 3000 syllables.  :-)

> (wiedersehen?)
> Or perhaps, for the internet, auf wiedertippen!
Hee hee.  Well, people in English say "seeya" on the Net, so, I don't
think there'd be a problem with auf wiedersehen.  :-)

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