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Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate by erik_seaberg on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:51PM (#15444330)
That's 240 syllables per minute. Is speaking really so skew towards short words?
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Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate by int_19h on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:40PM (#15444749)
The average number of syllables per English word is ~1.4. For an alternative perspective, 71.5% of all English words are monosyllabic, and 19.4% are bisyllabic.
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Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate by ezrast on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:34PM (#15444699)
Your post averages 1.69 syllables per word; this one is 1.86. There's no way the conversational average is higher than two.
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