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

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From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 07 December 2001 00:25
Subject: Re: English syllable structure (was, for some reason: Re:
Llirine: How to creat a language)


> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>
> > Short term memory is not the same thing as "thinking."  We use short
term
> > memory to remember phone numbers while we dial them, to remember the
last
> > seven words someone said so we can put them in context, and to
remember
> > why the hell we went to the kitchen in the first place . . . .
>
> Are you sure? I thought we had to guess that... (About the kitchen, of
> course). I certainly can't ever remember. And is it exactly seven words,
> or is that just a random figure?
It varies from 5-9. And it isn't words that are being counted here, but
"chunks of data". Seven chunks of data is usually more than seven words,
at elast in English.

Consider: The small dog chased a cat through the garden.

9 words.
5 chunks of data (small dog chased cat garden). All the other words can be
inferred from context, and need not be explicitly remembered.

--
Fabian
Teach a man what to think, and he'll think as long as you watch him. Teach
a man how to think, and he'll think you're playing mind games.