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Unread 01-31-2012, 03:26 PM
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Can language be pure music with "meaning" only in the rhythm and tone?
I posit that language is never "pure music" because the human brain strives to impart meaning to language sounds that it hears or reads.

Even music is endowed with meaning. By the composer, the performer, the listener.
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