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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (53065)	8/25/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I might have this all wrong since I learned the term from a fellow I met at the beach twenty years ago. He was a musician and interested in the interaction between song and speech. (He was also the indispensable intermediary in the procurement of the finest hemp-related product I'd ever seen, bar none. So wdik.) He told me that the actual phonetic elements of a spoken word are "mesotics". Remember early computer-synthesized speech where each tonal value was given the same time and emphasis? So "hello" would come out hhh..eee..lll..ooh? Four mesotics strung together. I'm not dead sure about the spelling, but "otic" relates to "ear" so it feels right.