Re: [microsound] sgnidroceR esreveR

[Kyle Klipowicz <kyleklip@xxxxxxxxx>]

I doubt that there are any such cultures.

Sure, the ordering of actions, objects, subjects, etc can be
"reversed" in some languages, but all are limited by the fact that the
voice can only make one layer of sound at a time (unless it's a
Mongolian throat singer).

It's also harder to process multiple lines of audio at once:  try
listening to two people saying completely different things at once,
it's like an audible Necker Cube
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube).  So since we cannot layer
the meaning encoded within language "harmonically," it must be
communicated "melodically" or in temporal sequence.

The idea would be great for a Sci-fi story though!

~Kyle

On 9/5/06, erik schoster <ejschoster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd be really interested to know if there are cultures that don't
> perceive sound as directional - I'd say it is for the same reason we
> perceive time as directional though.  We understand events to happen
> one after the other, linearly, and because of that we probably model
> our writing and music against them.  It would be really interesting to
> know though if there is a culture out there that has a kind of
> rhizomatic perception of time - events branching off from each other
> in a mess of lines, maybe even feeding back onto itself...  I can't
> imagine there are such cultures, but I bet their languages would look
> cool!  (Maybe to us something like paul's message...)
>
> Erik
>
> On 9/5/06, { brad brace } <bbrace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ?serutluc lla rof eurt siht sI ?raenil ?lanoitcerid eb ot
> > deviecrep )egaugnal dna( sdnuos era yhW
> >
> > /:b
> >
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