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do jbopre speak slowly?
- To: lojban-list@lojban.org
- Subject: do jbopre speak slowly?
- From: "Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:08:35 -0500
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Lojban seems to pack more information into individual phonemes than do
languges like English. (Compare the number and frequency of one
syllable words in the two languages.) 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?
Now, even if this were the case, it probably wouldn't *sound* like it,
because the rate of Shannon-information transfer would probably be
about the same, and that's probably what determines how "fast" speech
sounds to a fluent listener. But measured in phonemes/sec, it would be
slower.
Chris Capel
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