xenolinguistics

[Mamorien]

The sidebar on p.IST33 says the emotional diacriticals "cannot be taught to a person lacking the Emotion Sense super-skill." To use your comparison of Chinese diacriticals, imagine trying to teach the tones involved with each diacritical to a deaf person. And Mandarin only has four diacriticals; Kyz!ynoa* may have over a thousand (p.IST34 says they represent "nearly 1,300 different emotional shadings").