From: C R Culver <CRCulver@aol.com>
Subject: (urth) More on Jonas' Language
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:32:59 EST


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]

Mark Millman argued:
>But Severian, since he doesn't speak Chinese, might well not notice the
tones--they're not that obvious to non-speakers even in Cantonese, which is
the more heavily tonal of the two major dialects.<

And of course, Chinese speakers don't use tones on every single word like
written pinyin.

But, I'm sure it was Korean because Korea *was just mentioned* in that section
of volume II. I doubt it was coincidental.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver@aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html

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