From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Mon Jun 11 09:48:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 11 Jun 2001 16:48:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 23633 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 16:48:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Jun 2001 16:48:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO b05.egroups.com) (10.1.2.184) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 16:48:58 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.122] by b05.egroups.com with NNFMP; 11 Jun 2001 16:48:58 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:48:56 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: le jbozgi Message-ID: <9g2spo+2q1u@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010608225622.00d83520@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1340 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 193.149.49.79 From: "A.W.T." X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7804 --- In lojban@y..., "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" wrote: > At 10:33 PM 06/08/2001 -0400, Craig wrote: > >I love it! plus it's good for humor - what if refers to a dog, > >and refers to it's owner, and I inform you that: > > > >le broda cu melbi > > D A D C D G > > > >Who's beautiful? the melody says its the person... ki'a ?? > I don't see why this concept of musical language or its associated humor is > necessarily specific to Lojban, but I do see that it offers a new form of > creativity and humor that seems in keeping with the spirit of the language. It's not at all specific to lojban, but good an idea anyway. I think the language most specific for that kind is Cantonese: Having about 8 tones - Hakka having 6 - it is most famous for its "Guangdong Opera" being far more refined than other kinds of Chinese musical performances, e.g. well-known Peking Opera. As I was told by an expert (and remarkable singer of Canton opera himself), there can be hundreds of "versions" of one play: i.e. the "story" is the "same", but the texts (words) are different - and hence is the music! Also, the singers have no need for notes, they just have to read - and study - the words! (I'm hearing my friend quite often from his tape when driving to my office :) mu'o mi'e .aulun.