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GL5  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.

GL5 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
mpqsbl
mpt3
ni5l

improve
impossible
empty
initial
nstql
nstan
ntres
ntr
install
instant
intrest
enter

Short vowel sounds are specially favord for limination. Consider these xamples:

simlr
mrj
kqnstwt
kvn5n
knsidr
kqmn
lesn

similar
merge
constitute
convention
consider
common
lesson
r3jnl
djtl
nosbl
knt8n
knstruk
4
4s
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
splo5n
spl8n
spekt
stn5n
zakli
spe5li
nvlop
tristi
mrjsi
Let me give you a zampl of GL5.
He aced his final zam.
There was a terrific splo5n.
Please spl8n 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 nvlop.
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
kqmd8t
proxmtli
plqz
p3r
sos2t
st6n'
n6ns
f5l
We can kqmd8t you this evening.
It'll be proxmtli 4 hours.
The audiance erupted in plqz.
H p3rz t B m7n t dz3z.
This is my sos2t, Mr. Jones.
That was a st6n' performance.
He will n6ns the winners.
A f5l 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
str9
strb
sku5n
Klumbs skuvrd Merka n 1492.
4 kqr wz totli str9d.
Pl3z don strb.
48 h a fra'k sku5n.
 

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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