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

 --- Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> > 'Noise' syllables serve another very useful
> function: In situations where
> > the communication lines are not perfectly clear,
> they help in
> > communication. If I hear the word 'the', I know I
> should expect a noun to
> > follow immediately after. If I don't, I'd ask the
> speaker to repeat. This
>
> `The big black ugly dog.' Noun phrase, then.
>
> Tristan
Answer: Yes you are right for English, but in other
languages, there are different ways to define noun
phrase without 'the'. And in some times English can't
define a word's meaning:'She went to bank.' what is
the meaning of 'bank'?
Su Cheng Zhong


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