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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
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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
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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?

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