Re: UK friendly?

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>]

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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