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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Vulcan Language
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Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 09:30:41 EST
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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.