Re: Non-polairty

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:45:38 -0400, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:

[...]
>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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