Tonality is nuts. One of the first things you learn is that the questioning ‘ma’ can also become ‘horse’ or ‘mother’ given a tone. “Māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà

Tonality is nuts. One of the first things you learn is that the questioning ‘ma’ can also become ‘horse’ or ‘mother’ given a tone. “Māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà mǎ” - “Mom rides a horse. The horse is slow. Mom scolds the horse.”