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.
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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.