{"id":9759,"date":"2011-09-12T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9759"},"modified":"2011-09-12T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:00:15","slug":"say-it-loud-too-so-i-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9759","title":{"rendered":"Say It Loud, Too, So I Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,2091477,00.html\">Slow Down! Why Some Languages Sound So Fast<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[S]ome languages seem to zip by faster than others. Spanish blows the doors off French; Japanese leaves German in the dust \u2014 or at least that&#8217;s how they sound.<\/p>\n<p>But how could that be? The dialogue in movies translated from English to Spanish doesn&#8217;t whiz by in half the original time, after all, which is what it would have to do if the same lines were being spoken at doubletime.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nVietnamese was used as a reference language for the other seven, with its syllables (which are considered by linguists to be very information dense) given an arbitrary value of 1.<\/p>\n<p>For all of the other languages, the researchers discovered, the more data-dense the average syllable is, the fewer of those syllables had to be spoken per second \u2014 and the slower the speech thus was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow Down! Why Some Languages Sound So Fast [S]ome languages seem to zip by faster than others. Spanish blows the doors off French; Japanese leaves German in the dust \u2014 or at least that&#8217;s how they sound. But how could &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9759\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}