Re: Phonemes

David Wright Sr. wrote:

> > (BTW those bottom-notes are very annoying.)

> Oh, you could be referring to my habit of footnoting for which, sometimes,
> I forget to put the note. If that is the case, then I can only say that I
> prefer to footnote things which are not, IMO, specifically germane to the
> immediate discussion.

My very first word processor, PerfectWriter, which came with the Kaypro
4'84, had an option of putting the footnotes immediately after the
paragraph in which they were noted. I couldn't imagine why anyone would
want to do that, but email wasn't available yet.

> >> written in 1948 called 'Gulf'. In it, the author using the work of
> >> Ogden and Richards in Basic English, and Alfred Korzybski in General
> >> Semantics, and implicitly, some linguist[2], postulated a language
> >> called 'speedtalk'. In
> >
> > It doesn't really sound like Bloomfield's sort of thing, but Jespersen
> > was into conlangs. Sweet wrote dismissively of them in the 11th
> > Britannica.
>
> I wasn't connecting Bloomfield to any notion of artificial languages.

"some linguist, probably Bloomfield, postulated a language called
'speedtalk.'"

> >> simple terms, speedtalk was based on the notion of one phoneme per word
> >> for
> >
> > Then it is by definition not a possible human language -- there's no
> > duality of patterning!
>
> Can you explain what you mean by 'duality of patterning'. I don't recall
> ever hearing that one. Why would the lack of it make it a non-possible
> human language?

We just did this three days ago!

Hockett's most basic Design Feature of language. Little meaningless
units are combined into bigger meaningful units.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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    ... > David Wright Sr. ... >> Oh, you could be referring to my habit of footnoting for which, sometimes, ... used, "Basic English" from O&R, a better and more logical language based on K ... There would be no need for 'small meaningless' units. ...
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