And lo on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:51:13 -0000, Gail Shaw sa dot com>  
<"<initialsurname"@sentech> did spake, saying:

>
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:47a3338f$1@news.povray.org...
>> 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.

[Insert obligatory B5 reference here.]

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