Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented
by tunesmith on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:15AM
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Not sure where I read it, but it was recently - languages that sound faster really just tend to have more syllables per concept, and all languages generally tend to have the same speed of communicated concept.
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Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented
by btilly on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:44AM
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Whoever said that was not a competent programmer, discussing programming languages.
Research into programming languages says that lines of code written/day tends to be surprisingly consistent. But the amount of functionality embedded in that code varies widely depending on the language.
Faster languages are ones that take over basic mechanics for you (eg memory management), infer things for you (eg compare C++ to go), or offer more convenient abstractions (eg compare scripting languages to C or Java). The difference is usually an order of magnitude, but can be more in the right circumstances.
Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented
by tunesmith on Friday March 22, 2013 @03:18AM
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I'm talking about spoken languages. Spanish, for instance - low amount of concepts per syllable, which is why it sounds so fast.
Re:John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented
by johnwatson11218 on Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:10AM
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I read the same thing, the article I read also said that Chinese encodes more info per sound so it sounds like the speakers are speaking more slowly. English was somewhere in the middle.