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[css-egg] Add proposed alternate definitions of the timble
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@@ -324,6 +324,14 @@ Alternatively, defining ''1tmbl'' as
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the speed at which Tim Berners-Lee speaks in that language
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is also problematic,
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given that there are languages that He does not speak at all.
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Tim Berners-Lee has provided an alternative definition of the timble,
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<a href="http://schepers.cc/timble">as documented by Doug Schepers</a>:
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<q>speech at more than 1 timble is difficult to understand;
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speech below 1 timble is simply boring</q>.
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Doug himself defines it as
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<q>the uppermost rate of speech
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at which a normal person
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can understand what’s being said in their native language</q>.
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<h4 id="voice-rate-ext">
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Extension to the 'voice-rate' property</h4>
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Anne van Kesteren,
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Bruce Lawson,
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Chris Mills,
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Doug Schepers,
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Daniel Glazman,
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Leif Arne Storset,
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Paul Verbeek,
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Peter Linss.
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Peter Linss,
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Tim Berners-Lee (assuming the quotation by Doug correctly records what Tim said).

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