[Ads-l] Oblique (tones)

[Benjamin Barrett]

According to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neither#Usage_notes, I'm in 
reasonably good company. BB

> Wilson Gray <mailto:hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> 10 July 2015 at 18:16
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
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> neither has
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> Benjamin Barrett <mailto:gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
> 10 July 2015 at 16:34
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> Although oblique is defined on Wiktionary and the the Oxford Dictionary
> site for grammar, neither have the meaning of "other than flat/first
> tone" for Chinese.
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> https://anguslai.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/tones-in-chinese-languages/
> Examples at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couplet_%28Chinese_poetry%29
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