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Re: [lojban] Re: do jbopre speak slowly?

i would think that people would speak faster as the very purpose of
things like .y'y is to make what is being said easy to convey and hard
to confuse. and because of how rhythimic the language becomes because
there is just an even distribution of constonants and vowels. people
only need to emphasize at the second last syllable allowing for the
rest to be hurried through.

Generally being a rusko I have to deal with lots of text to say as
words are significantly longer, most translated books tend to be 25%
longer, but people seem to read them much faster than they do english
text because it doesn't get jumbled like english because of all the
k's and rolling r's hard sounds that allow you to seperate out the
vowels.

On 6/30/06, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

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


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