From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 04 11:23:50 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxpYZ-0008Q6-No for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:23:31 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxpYZ-0008Pz-F9 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:23:31 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:23:31 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: do jbopre speak slowly? Message-ID: <20060704182331.GH9631@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <737b61f30606291208u116ab072i7d77bc064d346a93@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560606291600r3c9d8954n5239ec45b6a30263@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d17560606291600r3c9d8954n5239ec45b6a30263@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 11903 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:00:00PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > >Thus, it seems like speaking Lojban at the same speed and (lack > >of) clarity as one speaks English would probably make it > >difficult to understand the Lojban. So, in order to keep > >communication errors down, does this suggest that Lojban speakers > >would naturally, probably unconciously, learn to speak phonemes > >more slowly and clearly than do English speakers? > > Since Lojban words tend to have more syllables than English words, > and there are less syllables available in Lojban (so less > possibility for confusion) I suspect that syllables will tend to > be pronounced faster in fluent Lojban than in fluent English. More, in English you have to pause (at least glottal stop, IME) a lot more often, so that's my intuition as well. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.