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Sound Money: GRESHAM'S LAW, gresh'amz, in economics, is usually stated as "bad money drives out good." The law stems from the fact that money has a value both as money and as a commodity in the open market. The former value is set arbitrarily by law and is relatively fixed; the latter is determined by supply and demand and varies from time to time, "Good money" has a higher value as a commodity than as money and will disappear from circulation.
Sibilants are both voiceless (as in English hiss) and voiced (as in English buzz). In some dialects, even though s was written, the voiced sound money may have been used in the final position and before voiced consonants. For the most part, however, the voiced sound money at first occurred only in combination with d, the combination being written f, but later the d sound money here probably disappeared and f simply represented a z sound money. Liquids are r, a trilled tongue-tip sound money, aspirated initially, after aspirates, and when doubled (that is, long); and I, normally dental, perhaps in some dialects occasionally palatal or velar.
Intensity of sound money Waves. The intensity, or strength, of a sound money is measured in two principal ways: in terms of the energy carried by the sound money wave or of the alternating pressure changes produced as the sound money wave passes by. As a practical matter, both measurements are usually converted into the decibel scale—a logarithmic scale with an arbitrary reference point, usually 2 x 10~5 newton per square meter. This arbitrary point is not far from the human threshold of hearing (the faintest sound money the ear can hear), and it is designated as 0 decibels. |
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