Re: Tono....death?

 --- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote: >
Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> >  --- bnathyuw wrote:
> >
> > >  --- Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> wrote:
> >
> > > First off, what's the opposite of tonogenesis?
> > > > That is, the process by which
> > > > tones die out in a language.
> > >
> > > tonapoptosis ?
> >
> >Tonocide! Mwahahahahahahhahaaa!
>
> "Tonocide" sounds alot like somebody deliberately
> ridding a language of its
> tones. I get visions of the Language Police sneaking
> around and arresting
> everyone not talking in a dead monotone ...
>
> The oposite of _tonogenesis_ should perhaps be, if
> the sages excuse my
> Greek, be _tonothanatos_?
>
for some reason _tonothnesis_ seems more likely to me,
but maybe i'm just obsessed with syncope . . .

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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