Re: UK friendly?

Subject: Re: UK friendly?
From: David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:50:45 -0500


Interestingly, Vietnamese has six separate tones that carry meaning.
The same "word" (or arrangement of phonemes) can be quite different
depending upon the tone in which it is pronounced, as I understand it.

Must be a b**** when someone has laryngitis or is tone deaf!

David


On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:15:49 -0400,
eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com
<eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com> wrote:
>
> bounce-techwr-l-106467 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on 09/17/2004 12:15:36 PM:
> > would actually prefer documentation to
> > evolve into tonal arragements that were independent of "languages".
>
> On another note,
>
> What on Earth does that mean? Tones in an arrangement that can be
> understood as communication...
>
> Isn't that, by definition, a language?

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