In a message dated 12/18/00 9:21:42 AM Pacific Standard Time,
butler@comp-lib.org writes:<< The problem with "Speedtalk" as a model is that
the olyagglutinative
inflected (I think I've got those terms right, but I'm probably kidding
myself--it's morning, before my coffee, and I don't DRINK coffee (:))
language Papa H. outlined, one phoneme per word, one word per sentence, was
still using our legacy audio I/O hardware in our legacy noisy environment. >>
Michael,
Gulf has for a long time been one of my favorite stories from the view
point that it was the story that most made me think. BTW, I once had the
opportunity to talk to Mrs. Heinlein for a few minutes and took the
opportunity to ask her about the origins of "speedtalk." She informed me
that he simply made it up for the story. I also learned that while his name
is German he was in fact mostly Irish. :))
Ron h.
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