GR translation: It implies moving past the tongue-stop

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 06:13:03 UTC 2022


I think so....

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 1:59 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So the "closing clap of tongue" must be referring to the part when one's
> tongue hits the roof of one's mouth then, is that correct?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 7:04 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Say the word "odd".....one's tongue hits the roof of one's mouth, then
>> settles, stops moving*....
>>
>> ...then P's magnificent link of that tongue-stop--beyond the zero (of the
>> stop) with P. 85, line 8
>> "the silent extinction beyond the zero"......
>>
>> Who f'in else could DO THIS?
>>
>> *scientists discuss how glottal are stops or not, whether they involve
>> the tongue or just (mostly)
>> the throat...
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 5:12 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> V85.17-20, P 87.3-7  Odd, odd, odd—think of the word: such white finality
>>> in its closing clap of tongue. It implies moving past the
>>> tongue-stop—beyond the zero—and into the other realm. Of course you don’t
>>> move past. But you do realize, intellectually, that’s how you ought to be
>>> moving.
>>>
>>> What is the "tongue-stop" exactly?
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