[ExI] What's the fastest language to speak?

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 20:36:05 UTC 2011


2011/10/17 Amon Zero <amon at doctrinezero.com>

> For example, the single phoneme "no" means "is owned by" or "belongs to". I
> wouldn't be at all surprised if such efficiency led to high information
> density.
>

Well, to play the devil's advocate, Saxon genitive (" 's ") was supposed to
serve the same purpose, wasn't it?

The loss or heavy semplification of declensions in contemporary European
languages made for easier learning but for lesser syntactic concision...

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Stefano Vaj
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