A cosmic note on the Spanish monophonemic consonantal command for silence

By Dr. Rafael Andrés Escribano

logofilo@logofilo.com
www.logofilo.com

22august2003

Consider the following correlations:

Element State of Phoneme Phoneme categories

matter categories by syllabic function

ether ether ? silence

fire plasma ? consonants as syllabic nucleus (i.e. in their secondary function)

(prototype: /s/ or /š/)

air gas vowels vowels as syllabic nucleus (i.e. in their primary function)

water liquid semivowels vowels as syllabic periphery (i.e. in their secondary function)
and semiconsonants

earth solid consonants consonants as syllabic periphery (i.e. in their primary function)

Why do I like to call /s/ or /š/ the prototypical Spanish consonant in secondary syllabic function (i.e. as syllabic nucleus) do you ask?
Because, in Spanish, as in some (many?) other languages, /s/ or /š/ is the (purely consonantal) command —yes, it is not only a full-
blooded phoneme, a full-blooded morpheme, a full-blooded syllable, and a full-blooded word, but a full-blooded imperative
sentence— for silence. And that which follows the command for silence, should the command be abided, is silence itself, i.e. the
phonological and linguistic void. But the void, as the theory of free energy has shown (e.g. http://www.cheniere.org/), is really a
plenum, a plenum full of infinite longitudinal wave activity, among other things. That plenum, that silence, which the “powers that be”
persecute and prohibit in all the sciences and arts… It is that silence, that plenum (glory, pleroma, the kingdom of heaven, the
sovereignty, eternity, ethernity, infinity…) where the logos itself comes from and ends in, it is the alpha and the omega of the logos,
and hence, of the universe.

However, phonetically, things are interestingly, and expectedly, quite particular. To begin with, it must be said that the /s/ or the /š/
which we speak of here is phonetically (and phonologically) not mere /s/ or mere /š/. Actually, it comes accompanied by a
simultaneous rounded labial articulation: the labial roundedness necessary to produce the Spanish vowel /u/, in particular. So, in order
to express this more accurately, I use the following graphemes: /s(u)/ and /š(u)/ respectively. And as the grapheme for linguistic silence,
I use the following grapheme: /Ø/.

So, according to this, the solution to the equation posited above would be as follows:

Element State of Phoneme Phoneme categories

matter categories by syllabic function

ether ether /Ø / silence

fire plasma /s(u)/ (or /š(u)/)… consonants as syllabic nucleus (i.e. in their secondary function)

air gas vowels vowels as syllabic nucleus (i.e. in their primary function)

water liquid semivowels vowels as syllabic periphery (i.e. in their secondary function)
and semiconsonants

earth solid consonants consonants as syllabic periphery (i.e. in their primary function)
So, let the games begin.