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  "thread": {
    "id": 430,
    "subject": "More on Jonas' Language",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-03-18T20:32:59+00:00",
    "last": "1998-03-18T20:32:59+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0008-0646@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "C R Culver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-18T20:32:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) More on Jonas' Language",
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          "text": "Mark Millman argued:"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "But Severian, since he doesn't speak Chinese, might well not notice the\ntones--they're not that obvious to non-speakers even in Cantonese, which is\nthe more heavily tonal of the two major dialects.<"
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          "text": "And of course, Chinese speakers don't use tones on every single word like\nwritten pinyin.\n\nBut, I'm sure it was Korean because Korea *was just mentioned* in that section\nof volume II. I doubt it was coincidental.\n\nChristopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html"
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