The University of Lyon researchers (who tested the relative efficiencies of languages) took the speed of delivery into account.
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I find that to be a very spurious statement. English is inefficient in many ways. And probably no more or less efficient than a great many other languages depending on what aspect of grammar you look at. Also, is redundancy inefficient in language?
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The researchers defined efficiency as the information density per syllable coupled with the number of syllables spoken per second. The full study can be read here: http://ohll.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/fulltext/pellegrino/Pellegrino_to%20appear_Language.pdf …
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But “No person, including Quijada himself [the inventor], is known to be able to speak Ithkuil fluently.”
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Got any data on that first claim?
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Rather like Elvish? (Sry. Amusing myself today.)
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The way things are trending, a one world language seems ineivetable.
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