Denis Fodor ([log in to unmask]) wrote:


Deryk Barker inquires:
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>>Really? Then what, pray, are we using to communicate with here?
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>Written language. Analagous with using written music.

Except that written language and spoken language are not identical.
(They have even been quite radically different in some countries - Greece
in the 19th century for one IIRC).

Arguing that "organised sound" could cover language too is, IMHO, mistaken.

Even if we amend your contention to read "spoken language" I humbly submit
that there is more to it than simply organised sound.  There are numerous
"rules" to spoken language which go well beyond the aural context.

Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate is an interesting case here: it is certainly
organised sound, it is spoken, it is syllabic but it is not, I would
contend, language.

Deryk Barker
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