What Will the World Speak in 2115?

Re:What Will the World Speak in 2115? by themodelplumber on Friday January 02, 2015 @06:28PM (#8829157)

We use tones in English, too. Is it TACO Bell, or Taco BELL? Either one can get you laughed out of the room in refined company, depending on your peer group.

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Re:What Will the World Speak in 2115? by dragonwriter on Friday January 02, 2015 @06:31PM (#8829166)

I'm not sure what you are trying to communicate with the capitalization there, but what it suggests to me is more stress/accent than tones; those aren't the same thing.

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Re:What Will the World Speak in 2115? by guelo on Friday January 02, 2015 @06:37PM (#8829190)

I've never thought of syllable accents as being equivalent to tones. Maybe you're right but to me the difference in emphasis has more to do with cadence and volume than tone.

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