Re: Most Compact Ever (Was:Re: Spoken Cat)

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:42:57 -0400, Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> wrote:

>>On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:48:50 +0900, Adrian Morgan
><morg0072@...> wrote:
>>>Does this approach the record for most compact
>>>polysyntactic language ever?
>>
>>Wow! Let's announce a competition for the most elegant draft grammar
>>packing this sentence into just two syllables!
The same thread provides other challenging exercises (see below). For most
of the monosyllabic sentences it seems hardly feasible to me - but who
knows?

Basilius


"Daniel A. Wier" <dawier@...> Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:59:43 CDT:

_mi:au_
"Where the hell have you been, come over here and scratch my ear"
<2 syllables>

_mrau_
"Feed me, dammit"
<1 syllable>

_r:_ (trill)
"I'm the center of the universe and don't you forget it!"
<1 syllable>

Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...> Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:45:49 -0700
>_mi:au_
"Where the hell have you been, I'm hungry.
<2 syllables>

>_r:_ (trill)
"I'm the center of the universe, so feed me."
<1 syllable>

Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:12:42 -0400

>>"Where the hell have you been, come over here and scratch my ear"
>"Where the hell have you been, I'm hungry.
Down this way it's wi:au; the former is wau.
<2 syllables; 1 syllable>

>>"Feed me, dammit"
That's mau.
<1 syllable>