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Re: Llirine: How to creat a language

From:Cheng Zhong Su <suchengzhong@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 22:00
 --- Andreas Johansson wrote: >
> What the in the blazing is "nonlinear phonology"? > The phonolgy of > non-segmental languages or what? (BTW, what is > "linear phonology"?) I still > don't understand what you mean by "phonetic > type"/"one articulation type" - > from your description it seems like a syllable. As > for the "b" and "e" in > "be" being articulated together, they are patently > NOT articulated > simultaneously if that's what you mean. > > > Andreas
Answer:If you can link that web page, the best answer may be like that, no matter how many syllables or 'phonetic types' you have, a tone language speaker always give at leat four times such numerous sound units and with more sound units we can shorten all the words, with shorten words it's more easy to compose new words such as if we assign pi=pig; mi=meat then we may take off the word 'pork' instead using pimi. We can give demonstration that all the current one million English words can be translated into just few thousand such shorten words. that's to say, once we handle these few thousand words, it'll be equal we handle the one million words too. Su Cheng Zhong http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Free CDs for thousands of Priority Shoppers!

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