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Re: Rating Languages

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, September 22, 2001, 20:11
At 08:46 2001-09-22 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

>On >the other hand, if you can't memorize a few thousand characters >and are tone-deaf, then Chinese must be hard.
Just a thought: do tone-deaf people have a handicap in societies speaking a tone-language? Then again maybe not. I'm pretty tone-deaf myself, and I manage the two Swedish word-tones... /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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