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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 871395" data-attributes="member: 6533">In line with Welsh Triads you might look at Medieval liturgical/pedagogical singing. Medieval students were forced to sing everything in order to memorize it and I can see some sort of singing as being very nice for a sonar culture.  I'm not certain what the lyrical requirements are, but I'm certain they are there.Early early medieval hymns were the first rhyming poetry in Western Europe.  Ambrose of Milan is sometimes credited with creating them, though he may also have been influenced by earlier Hebrew traditions of rhyming verse.A heavily sonic culture might also count pauses as I imagine echolocation would make them very sensitive to moments of decreased sound or silence.  Certainly they would be very beat and rhythm oriented.  Possibly also looking for words with flat or deep sounds in order to simulate navigating by echo.  I'm not certain how you would do that in English.  Perhaps long vowels versus short or annunciating both vowels in a double vowel unit like sound or deep and clipping the vowels in other syllables.That would create a very cool accent too, btw.</blockquote>