Show Acoustics Called Foundation for Jor Future Esperanto LOS ANGELES Those who would create a universal language should take account of the new science of acoustics Such Is the suggestion of Dr Vern O. O Knudsen acoustic expert of the University of California here Apparently little or no attention has been paid to the question whether the words of Esperanto or other artificial languages are readily understandable in spoken form In view of the vast amount of time wasted in retarded telephone telephone tele tele- phone calls and acoustic confusion in poor auditoria the creator of ofa ofa ofa a language should avoid the use of syllables frequently misunderstood Incidentally English is probably not the best language in this re re- re- re For example the terminal consonant group ng ag so common common common com com- mon in English is perhaps the worst offender in the alphabet Believe Spanish Best BestIn BestIn BestIn In the Los Angeles auditorium tests words ending in ng were misunderstood more than half hal the time In general words ending in consonants are more likely to be missed than those thos ending in vowels 4 This fact often oUen causes trouble for persons attempting to dictate strange material over the tele tele- phone Dr Knudsens Knudsen's pioneer tests have been conducted so 50 far only in Eng Eng- lish It is already suspected that Spanish will prove superior with its large number of words ending in vowels vowels Valencia a Santa Barbara Barbs Barba ra poco tiempo etc The Chinese language may prove to be still bet bet- ter To be sure western people are often oHen highly amused to hear a Chinese express meaning by sounding sounding sound sound- ing a vowel In two successive pitch tones This may however prove to be be the most scientific way of making ones one's self sel understood under difficulties V |