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by lsb
3915 days ago
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In James Gleick's The Information, the first chapter is about a West African culture, turning phonemes, stressed and unstressed, into drumbeats, for conveyance over longer distances than one could shout, and needing to compensate for the information-loss of sound into drum pulse by using longer and longer "phrases". |
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