Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxt!martillo From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Vulcan Language Message-ID: <335@ihuxt.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 09:30:41 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxt.335 Posted: Fri Mar 16 09:30:41 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:14:17 EST References: <700@seismo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 4 Phonetic richness has nothing to do with number of syllables. Arabic is much richer than English phonetically. Yet if a person says a passage in English and then translates the passage into Arabic, the translation will have fewer syllables.