How sensitive are your dogs to the tone of a command, as oppossed to the
actual words?

I'm losing my voice--everything I say is coming out as a horsey/croaky
whisper SIGH. I just called Macula in from outside, and it took about
three tries for her to respond to the "come." Thing is, I don't think it
was simple blowing-me-offness: each time I'd call her, she'd look at me as
if thinkng 'I kinda recognize the words, but they don't sound right.'

I remember when I was in Taiwan, how difficult it was to learn even the
simplest of phrases: the language was tonal, and even if I got the
pronounciation right, I could get the meaning wrong just by using the wrong
tone. Interestingly, I *could* sing in Taiwanese and Mandarin--the music
provided the tonal signatures that I couldn't get when speaking.

Marie
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