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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

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

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