Re: English syllable structure (was, for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)

> > OH!  Then by "phonetic type" you've been meaning
> > "mora" ?
> Answer: I am not quite sure what is "mora" ? Is it
> mean 'delay'? What I want say is finding a new unit
> that can sparate sound roughly equal in time, then we
> can understand many things. No matter how many
> syllables English has, a tone language speaker always
> can give at least four times the same numerous
> syllables by put a tone on every first CV of those
> syllables.
Quite true...however, this will make it take slightly more CPU time to
generate a syllable, since there are more possible combinations.

> And to create so many either syllables or
> 'phonetic types' is not our goal. The real target is
> as the words being shorten, we may increase thinking
> speed
Why does word length has anything to do with thinking speed? A more dense
word system would require more time to process and is more prone to
misinterpretation.  So one way or another, it would require extra words to
make up for the loss of necessary redundance.

Also, when thinking of non-abstract things, most people do not think in
words, but in images and actions. Even children who are brought up without a
language can think as quickly as people with a normal language. Language is
not a requirement for sentience (alhough the opposite is true, I think).

Maarten

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