Re: Another Introduction

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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