BY JAN HAAG
SOUNDS
6-27-99
There are forty-something sounds in English.
We don't use the sound of
the dove or the touhey,
nor the click nor the clap of some
African
languages. One of their's has
a hundred and forty-something
sounds,
but still does not encompass
the roar of the lion,
the howl of the
hyena
nor the flap of bird wings.
Communicate! O if only the birds
and the snakes
and the bees and the fish spoke to us
in forty
sounds, and we kept silent to hear.
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Jan Haag may be reached via e-mail: jhaag@u.washington.edu
BY JAN HAAG