EEE singy langauge *^^* We can tell you've been learning Mandarin X3 I'm having to drag up all the pin yin I learnt in year five through eight now, wai X3
Wheee, Mandarin rules. <3 I miss Mandarin. I really want to pick it up again this year, but my Japanese isn't good enough to let me learn a third language in a second language. :P
Gasp! The cruelty! Even I'd find that hard, unartistic or no, because I love playing with paint X3
Japanese is EXPONENTIALLY easier to speak than Mandarin, but dangit, it just doesn't sound as pretty. I love accidentally switching the Mandarin bulletin on SBS (and then I sit there going, 'zhongguo! that means China! ... um ... zhongwen! That means Chinese! ... ummm ... er ... he said thank-you? ...')
*cackle* You just want to watch anime in their native format. Ohh, I see right through you, I do XD
And that's the most intelligible comment you're going to drag out of me on this. Oh, crits, maybe it'd be a good idea to seperate the i sounds in your cut-'n-paste? ^-~
*bounce bounce*
*tries to adjust her pronunciation to the given notes* This might take some time.
Thankees! ^-^ Uhm... *shuffles feet* I'm more of an A person. Anything below the low C of the violin key makes my throat hurt. Not that I shouldn't be able to, you know, transpose these. Those high school music classeshave to have been good for something, I should think and hope.
*pokes brain and tries to get it to switch the as in Thalian* I did get... *counts* five of them correct without this. *is proud*
*is still not going to try and butcher them by attempting to pronounce things tonally*
Ooh, A. A minor is my favouritest key. ^_- (Not that I can sing in any recognisable key known to man. To play or listen to, I mean.) Maybe Ancaladis should be an A.
And I actually changed the a-sound to fit singing better, so you probably were pronouncing Arathalian the same as I was before. Australians take any chance they can get to be short and nasal anyway XD XD
I read this a while ago, sorry for taking so long to comment. I love all your language stuff, and this singing language is especially clever. It reminds me somewhat of cantillation, the way the tora is chanted when read out in synagogue. Though in cantillation the notes represent punctuation rather than actually being part of the words.
Minor crit: I don't think that having minor scales mean anger or nerves would be altogether fitting, since a change of key seems to me like something deliberate rather than involuntary (though you could argue around that, I guess). Maybe having it represent, say, questions or whining would be better?
I've never heard of cantillation before. That's fantastic. *fascinated* Aaagh, this is why I love linguistics. You could study it all your life and not get out of the shallow end. XD <3
I've been reading about English inflections lately - especially the highly specific rising/falling patterns we use to indicate sarcasm or outrage - and how they're actually learned responses rather than natural, physiological associations with emotion (since otherwise those patterns would be reproduced in every language). So I figured that fae could well have adopted the minor key for demonstrative anger. With reflexive anger and nerves, though, I think you're right - they'd be likelier just to go high and/or quiet like the rest of us XD
I also thought minor key could be ceremonial and/or formal. Lots of pondering lately. ;D
Thanks for the input, hon, and the cantillation! I can see what I'll be investigating next. XD
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Wheee, Mandarin rules. <3 I miss Mandarin. I really want to pick it up again this year, but my Japanese isn't good enough to let me learn a third language in a second language. :P
I r teh jealousy X(
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I so want to take up Japanese tho. This is my last year of French, so I'm thinking next year I'll see about Japanese. That would be so spiffy XD
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Japanese is EXPONENTIALLY easier to speak than Mandarin, but dangit, it just doesn't sound as pretty. I love accidentally switching the Mandarin bulletin on SBS (and then I sit there going, 'zhongguo! that means China! ... um ... zhongwen! That means Chinese! ... ummm ... er ... he said thank-you? ...')
*cackle* You just want to watch anime in their native format. Ohh, I see right through you, I do XD
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And that's the most intelligible comment you're going to drag out of me on this. Oh, crits, maybe it'd be a good idea to seperate the i sounds in your cut-'n-paste? ^-~
*bounce bounce*
*tries to adjust her pronunciation to the given notes* This might take some time.
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And I can give you the rundown if you'd like ;D Do you like C?
Áncālādîs - aan(B)caa(E)laa(E)diss(C)
Àrăthālìān - are(D)ah(C)thah(E)li(B)aan(E)
Ăscălàin - ah(C)skah(C)lane(B)
Cōchályón - co'(E)shaal(B)yon(B) (he'd say chaal, I think ... still not sure ;P)
Cūlúndár - cool(E)oon(B)daar(B)
Fîânnás - fi'(C)aan(C)naas(B)
Îlínmé - i'(C)linn(B)mee(B) (last e is actually a y: Ilinmy)
Ĭnyāmênná - in(C)yah(E)men(C)nah(B)
Māiòs - my(E)oss(D)
Nēbêshánín - neh(E)beh(C)shah(B)nin(B)
*splashes around in big puddle of brackets*
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Thankees! ^-^ Uhm... *shuffles feet* I'm more of an A person. Anything below the low C of the violin key makes my throat hurt. Not that I shouldn't be able to, you know, transpose these. Those high school music classeshave to have been good for something, I should think and hope.
*pokes brain and tries to get it to switch the as in Thalian* I did get... *counts* five of them correct without this. *is proud*
*is still not going to try and butcher them by attempting to pronounce things tonally*
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And I actually changed the a-sound to fit singing better, so you probably were pronouncing Arathalian the same as I was before. Australians take any chance they can get to be short and nasal anyway XD XD
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Minor crit: I don't think that having minor scales mean anger or nerves would be altogether fitting, since a change of key seems to me like something deliberate rather than involuntary (though you could argue around that, I guess). Maybe having it represent, say, questions or whining would be better?
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I've been reading about English inflections lately - especially the highly specific rising/falling patterns we use to indicate sarcasm or outrage - and how they're actually learned responses rather than natural, physiological associations with emotion (since otherwise those patterns would be reproduced in every language). So I figured that fae could well have adopted the minor key for demonstrative anger. With reflexive anger and nerves, though, I think you're right - they'd be likelier just to go high and/or quiet like the rest of us XD
I also thought minor key could be ceremonial and/or formal. Lots of pondering lately. ;D
Thanks for the input, hon, and the cantillation! I can see what I'll be investigating next. XD
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