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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
Mposbl
Mpti
Nhl

improve
impossible
empty
initial
Nstol
Nstan
Ntres
Ntr
install
instant
intrest
enter
Short vowel sounds are specially favord for limination. Consider these zamples:

Simlr
Mrj
Konstwt
Kvnhn
Knsidr
Komn
Lesn

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
EXAM
EXPLOSION
EXPLAIN
EXPECT
EXTENSION
EXACTLY
ESPECIALLY
ENVELOPE
ELECTRICITY
EMERGENCY

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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