Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site seismo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!tiberio From: tiberio@seismo.UUCP (Mike Tiberio) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Vulcan Language Message-ID: <700@seismo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 08:27:05 EST Article-I.D.: seismo.700 Posted: Thu Mar 15 08:27:05 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 01:56:22 EST Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 10 Recent activity in this news group has caused me to review my ST I and II video tapes. One thing began to bother me recently and that is, why would conversation in a language like Vulcan, which I assume has a richer phoenetic base than english, take the same number of syllables as english. From what I know about the way the create extra terrestrial spoken languages in the movies, I can only assume the take the English and scramble the syllables, resulting in the same number. Is my assumption about the Vulcan spoken language unreasonable? ty