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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest
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In article <yb+qJUA+ek+xEwKE@vision25.demon.co.uk>
Philip Hunt <phil@vision25.demon.co.uk> writes:

> In spoken language, there are pressures in favour of shortening words
> (it takes less time to say them), and lengthening words (for clarity).
> These pressures occur in all languages, and the the underlying human
> language processing system is the same, so you would expect all
> languages to take the same time to say something, provided the concepts
> talked about are familiar and commonly-used in that language.

What keeps these pressures from applying to written language?

David

"Heideggerian hope comes into question." J.D.
