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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: languages & happiness!!
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 06:57:15 GMT
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ablehr@sn.nono writes in a recent posting (reference <32EB4FCE.4479@sn.nono>):
>
>What's an artificial sound?  Certainly you don't mean that music in
>itself is artificial - it's been around as long as languages have. 

To be sure, "folk music" has been around for as long as languages have.
But invented music with little history (Mahler's symphonies, for example)
must needs be unperfumed, even grotesque- like plastic flowers.


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