Conciseness (was: Hi all!! I'm a newcomer.)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 5:10 |
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On Monday, June 7, 2004, at 06:13 , Joe wrote:
> Yeah, but I was emphasising conciseness. I've found that a simple
> sentence - verb, subject, and object, can't really be expressed with
> less than three syllables.
It certainly can, really & truly; e.g.
tu l'aimes /tylEm/ two syllables
je l'aime /ZlEm/ one syllable
If you're after conciseness, then you must check out Skrintha's (aka
Srikanth's) Lin. The first challenge will be to make your language as
concise (and if you're stuck with the idea that a morpheme must consist of
at least a syllable, you're onto a looser), then the real challenge is to
improve on Lin's concision :-)
Ray
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