Re: Advice wanted re 'Briefscript'

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Raymond A. Brown wrote:

[snippage]

> Long years ago when learning Speedwords I did find (sorry Bob, but it's
> what _I_ experienced) the lack of self-segregating morphemes a problem*,
> especially as morpheme division can make a very considerable difference to
> the way the word is pronounced in that language.
>
> (*Ok - you can segregate them once you've learnt the _whole_ language.  But
> I do _not_ want to start a discussion of Speedwords here.  That is better
> reserved IMO for AUXLANG or done in private. )
>
> It may just be a peculiarity of mine that I feel more comfortable with a
> language if I can learn to read it in the sense that I know what the words
> before me sound like even if I don't know all the words; that's why, e.g.,
> I feel at more at home with Welsh than with Irish.
Relatedly, using the same argument, I feel more comfortable
with a lang that does part-of-speech marking, at least to
some degree. It helps with syntactic processing the same way
that self-segregating morphemes help with the morphological.