"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Gail Shaw wrote:
>
> > Try Thai. It's a tonal language. The same sounding word has different
> > meanings if you say it with a high pitch, medium pitch, low pitch,
rising or
> > falling.
>
> ...!!! o_O

Apparently there's one combination of sounds that has meaning in all 5
tones, and you can use those 5 words to make a sentence. However, when the
tour guid sia that sentance, t sounded to me like the same word 5 times. I
could not hear any difference.

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