Re: Tiny lexicon languages

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:59:33 -0700, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>Well, I'll leave anybody who wants to to supply the appropriate chirps
>and
>so forth for the twenty words, and then we can start writing some
>literature:
>
>        1) Many Food Ground Not Danger  (Or: Sally has filled the =
birdfeeder)
>        2) Danger Danger dead not me not you ground (Or: A cat caught =
one of
>                        us and left its carcass on the pavement)
>
>Hmm.  I left out "day."  We'll have to eliminate another word.
Some other words that might be useful to sparrows: preen, chirp, nest. A
sparrow's chirp is actually a rather complex sound (slow it down to hear
the details), but I don't know if it can fit 4.3 bits of information into
it. Maybe some words are polychirpic?

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