Re: the i-language

>From: daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
>Subject: the i-language
>Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:36:55 +0200
>In Swedish (and probably most European languages) there is a
>game called _i-språ«¥t_ or rather _i-sprikit_ 'the i-language',
>when you change all the vowels to /i/. Thee riseelt is finny,
>bit yee still indeersteend ivrything thit is sid.
>
>So the question is, would this work in all languages? Even in
>ini/nine? Would it work in languages with only CV-syllables?
>
>I don't know why I'm asking. Just curious about how much of
>the speak that is context and if the language E would work
>in reality. And other things that I really haven't thought
>about yet, but which probably will come up if there is any
>interest in this topic.
It's the prosodics that get you very far as well, isn't it? I read somewhere
that you could replace all English vowels with [@], and, given that all
intonation and context (and external conditions) were normal, still have
good comprehensibility. It's that redundancy thing. But I can't believe you
could play the i-game in, say, Hawai'ian. Maybe there it would go the other
way; you could play the "t-game", replacing all consonants with 't'! Hmm,
probably not though...:)

Oskar
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