Re: [lojban] do jbopre speak slowly?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

I think that there would be differences between Bertcad, Xagvar, and the rural 
areas, just as there are differences between Boston and Atlanta, or between 
El Salvador, Mexico, and Argentina. Also when a hick jbopre from a town where 
pronunciation is muddled tries to talk with a bertcapre, he will probably 
talk slower than two hicks or two bertcapre.

Both sentences and words in Lojban are a bit longer than in English, because 
of the unambiguous lexing and grammar. This probably doesn't mean that Lojban 
will be spoken faster, in phonemes per second, because that would result in 
confusion between similar sounding and meaning words (e.g. 
noltruni'u/noltroni'u, ratcu/ractu, ko'o/ko'u).

phma