Re: Necessary Components of a Language

In a message dated 4/24/2007 7:43:50 PM Central Daylight Time,
hsteoh@QUICKFUR.ATH.CX writes:


> > >In many languages this is marked only by inflection.  The words
> themselves
> > >are exactly the same.
> >
> > The two sentences seem to be in contradiction, unless you mean "words"
> > in the abstract sense in which e.g.  "devi", "devu" and "devas" are
> > all the same word?
> [...]
>
> He meant intonation (as in "inflection of voice").
>
Oh, yeah, that kind of inflection.  Poor choice of wording on my part.

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