Re: Llirine: How to creat a language
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 3, 2001, 22:03 |
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Cheng Zhong Su wrote:
> This is the Language theory
>If a language just have two phonetic types, could itld
>be able to express the world? Of coures it can, for
>computer just has two symbols. The different is if
>some body just know two phonetic types, eg A and B, he
>will express the world much slow than an English
>speaker. For in English, it has 400 different phonetic
>types. Suppose there are only 400 things in the world,
>English speaker can use one phonetic type for each,
>but the two phonetic types' speaker some times has to
>use nine phonetic type to express one of the 400
>things. That means every single lip movement of
>English speaker is roughly equal nine lip movements of
>two phonetic types' speaker. It means that with more
>phonetic types, not only save labor but express
>faster. Since the thinking speed is a sort of
>'speaking in mind' the faster express in speech means
>faster thinking speed. And as a shorter word can be
>combined more flexible, it also solve the issue of too
>many words to be remembered.
>The Lirine has fewer vowel than English. So, by math,
>every one knows it could be something like the two
>soud speaker.
What do you mean by "phonetic type"? You're obviously not meaning "phoneme",
since English don't have even close to four houndred of them (it's closer to
forty, but I'm to lazy to check right now, and it varies from dialect to
dialect in any case). Syllables? Assuming twenty possible onsets, ten
possible centers (vowels) and twenty possible codas (all underestimates of
the English inventories), we land on 4000 possible syllables. So what are
you talking about?
No matter what you mean, I very much doubt that thinking speed is seriously
affected by linguistic issues (for starters, you may want to recheck your
assumption that the time needed to analyze one unit out of a set of two is
the same as the one needed to analyze one out of a set of four houndred).
Andreas
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