Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:09:15 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org '" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Tyr'd with all this pronunciation thread Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012031303450.30136-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EF3@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu>
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Peter Lai wrote:
> well with all of us being geeks, i'm sure we could elicit the help of Dr.
> Noam Chomsky from MIT and help build a new international langauge that
> follow precise rules (e.g. that of a computer language) in syntax and
> structures. Something that makes sense to the brain.
IIRC, Gallic is the international language that Larry Niven envisages in
his SF novels... (its been a while since I read them...)
> For example, the same movement of the mouth and tongue are used to
> pronounce "dead" and "crap" in mandarin, but they sound differently
> and mean different things.
There you go. You learn something new every day :-)
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