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Glh Syllabic Contraction Many English words continue to carry extra phonemic baggage that contributes no essential additional connotative value. Removal of such vestigual phonemes, when it results in no imposed ambiguity, can achieve very significant degrees of compression. Glh will push this concept to the limit. First of all, English uses more vowels than it need. Often the shortest distance between two consonants is simply provided by the consonants alone. For example, the use of a leading vowel before nasal consonants is frequently unnecessary. Include rendered nklwd is just as effective as with the i : inklwd. This would produce such words as: |
Mprwv |
improve impossible empty initial |
Nstol Nstan Ntres Ntr |
install instant intrest enter |
Simlr |
similar merge constitute convention consider common lesson |
R3jnl Djtl Nqsbl Kntan Knstruk 7 7s |
regional digital noticable contain construct the this |
Words beginning with vowels are notable candidates for syllabic contraction. For zample, EXACT can be shortened to ZAKT with not loss of meaning and the resultant compact model is not confused with any other existing word.
Other EX- words include:
EXAMPLE |
Zampl Zam Splq2n Splan Spekt Stnhn Zxkli Spehli Nvlqp Tristi Mrjsi |
Let me give you a zampl of
Glh. He aced his final zam. There was a terrific splo5n. Please splan yourself. I spekt you will get it. I need a stn5n cord. That's zakli what I said. We could. Spe5li if you agree. This is definitely outside the nvlqp. The tristi is off right now. This is a mrjsi ! |
Other vowel initiated words that are suspect:
ACCOMODATE APPROXIMATELY APPLAUSE APPEAR ASSOCIATE ASTOUNDING ANNOUNCE OFFICIAL |
komdat proxmtli ploz p3r sqs@t st6n' n6ns f5l |
We can komdat you this evening. It'll be pro5mtli 4 hours. The audiance erupted in ploz. This is my sqs@t, Mr. Jones. That was a st6n' performance. He will n6ns the winners. A fhl sponser of the Lympics. |
Many negative prefixes continue to be employed in numerous words where the negation is no longer conoted. For example, IN- in inflammable does not indicate a lack of combustability. DIS- in discovery, IR- in irradiate are also positive terms. Therefore...
DISCOVERY DESTROY DISTURB DISCUSSION |
skuvri str* strb skuhn |
Klumbs skuvrd Merka N 1492. 7 kor wz totli str*d. Pl3z don strb. 7a `xd a fra'k skuhn. |
The basic principal in syllabic compression is to reduce unnecessary syllables to the point just short of ambiguity. For example, "discovery" could actually be reduced to simply skuv, because there is no other existing English word that would be confused with it. Whereas, "announce" cannot be reduced any further than n6ns, because n6n ("noun") already exists as a valid English word.
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