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Re: Non-polairty

From:Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 13:41
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:45:38 -0400, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:

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>I object. I would like to eradicate all of these - and the associated >(cringily kludgy) Esperantoesque practice of having some word be the >base and then antonyming it (e.g. malbono [sp?] et al). Likewise with >referring to the spectrum, or the unkown quantity, with one of the >endpoint words - e.g. "how old are you?". > >More, I would like to have some sort of grammatical and elegant way of >having a *continuous* spectrum. I don't object to having reference >points along the way (e.g. for color or temperature), just to having >voids inbetween. > >The simplest idea I can think of for auditory mode is to use the two >major continuous factors of speech - vertical & horizontal tongue >position. This would work OK for finite spectra - i.e. 0-1 or (0,0) to >(1,1) - but not so much for the infinite. Not sure how to work that.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Mark Rosenfelder's Elkarîl yet. Elkarîl uses exactly this kind of continuous vowel variation for scontinuous scales. http://zompist.com/elkaril.htm#Vowel Alex

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