Re: Llirine: How to creat a language

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:14:54AM +1100, Cheng Zhong Su wrote:
> things. That means every single lip movement of
> English speaker is roughly equal nine lip movements of
> two phonetic types' speaker.
Not necessarily. English has a lot of redundancy - you get about 1 bit
of information per character. Part of this is useful - you can hear
English under poor listening conditions, and still often get the
message. (I'd assume the same would be somewhat true with about any
natural language.)

But a language with two consonants and two vowels - say p/l/u/a -
doesn't need as much redundancy, because p and l and u and a are unlike
to get confused.

> 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.
Why would you think that? A lot of important thought is non-verbal or
subconsious, and when I'm really thinking about something complex, there
will often be long pauses in my mental speech. My reading speed
certainly isn't limited by my speaking speed; I don't see why my
thinking speed would be.

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