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[lojban] Re: Are Natlang the best case for entropy in communication ?
On Monday, June 18, 2012 1:52:59 PM UTC+4, Escape Landsome wrote:Coi rodo,
in a noisy verbal interaction, for instance, on a phone call (but this
applies to any case, indeed), it is good for communication that the
elements of signal can be easily distinguished, so as to avoid
reception errors.
This is achieved by natlangs, by sparsing all the existing words (for
instance, adverbs) in such a "morphologic space" that has very few
collisions. For instance, the english words for "few", "many", "a
lot" and "none" are phonologically very different of each other, so
there is little chance you could confuse them by hearing them on a
deficient phone.
Yes, but here comes another problem. Memorising "so'V" takes less time than "few", "many", "a
lot" and "none" cuz they are ... phonologically very different of each other!
But this is not the case of lojban words, for instance so'a, so'e,
so'i, so'o etc. are very near of each other, and, assuming you don't
hear well the last vowel, you could infer something very far from what
was intended by the other speaker.
I believe that most Chinese words sound the same for an ordinary English speaker because the latter is just not used to it's phonology.
But still Chinese is the language with which you can send people to outer space. Does it mean that this language is bad?
Let's get rid of such subtle differences in LoCCan 3.
But then other people will appear and say that <l> and <r> sound the same for them.
<m> and <n> sound the same. In LoCCan ~10.0 we'll have <p,t,k,m,a,i,u> sounds only.
Is it what we want?
Why not try pronouncing {so'i} and {so'e} more carefully than in English?
Chinese phonology requires "singing" sounds because of tones (at least that's how many Europeans perceive it).
So why not doing the same in Lojban?
Am I not right about LoCCan 3? May be all cmavo should have the form CVCCV/CCVCV?
So, is not that something that is annoying ?
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