Re: Tono....death?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 16:38 |
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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_?
Andreas
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