Downes 🍁 on Nostr: It's funny that the describe Chinese as a tonal language and English as atonal. I get ...
It's funny that the describe Chinese as a tonal language and English as atonal. I get why - use a different tone in Chinese and you're saying a different word. But English is a very tonal language. Change the tone, and while it's still the same word, what you're saying with it can be very different.
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