# More on Jonas' Language

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Mar 1998*

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### C R Culver
*18 Mar 1998, 20:32*

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 at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html

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