reply to Daniel Wolf

> while the general capacity for language
> shapes thinking, particular languages do not

Although you made some salient points,
I must continue to disagree with this.
I've always had pretty good ears, but until
I read Partch's _Gensis_, I had no idea
that there were so many other notes available
for music-making besides the usual 12.

Why? Because my training never told
me there was anything else. The musical
"language" I had learned up to that point
shaped all of my musical thinking, and
imposed constraints on my own perceptual
cognition, of which I was totally unaware.
Regular language works this way too.

- Monzo
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