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Re: Another Introduction

From:Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 14:09
On Tue, 27 May 2003 18:21:34 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

>Hi! > >Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...> writes: >... >> >Is this binary language transferrable into a spoken mode? >> >> I've made one way to speak the language, by just assigning a syllable to >> each group of seven bits. But since the words aren't aligned to any >> particular position, every single morpheme has seven phonologically >> unrelated allomorphs, and there's absolutely bizarre sandhi: >> 0000101101110110 'green' can be realized as >> 0000101|1011101|10 /saxinu/ or >> 000010|1101110|110 /oDaCe/ or >> 00001|0110111|0110 /emaci/, and so on; and >> 00001011011101101001001, which is 'green' followed by 'you', comes out to >> 0000101|1011101|1010010|01 /saxip\opo/. > >Hehe! :-) I abondonned a similar idea as being impossible to use. (Of >course, not all conlangers seem to lose interest an a concept for that >reason).
Yeah, it also occurred to me that this would prove very hard to use. One idea I've had is to have a way to force a new word to start (for instance with tone), so that for instance 00001011011101101001001 might be rendered ||0000101|1011101|10||1001001 /sa_Hxi_Lnu_LJi_H/. This would really correspond to ||0000101|1011101|1000000||1001001, but since the words are self-delimiting one could tell that the first word ends after sixteen bits and discard the last five.
>But have you thought about a compression method that works on the bits >alone, before the mapping to syllables? :-)
It seems like this would make it even more impossible to use! No, I haven't, but I'll have to look into it... :-) Alex

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