Re: Another Introduction
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 16:21 |
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).
But have you thought about a compression method that works on the bits
alone, before the mapping to syllables? :-)
**Henrik
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