The words are mostly monosyllabic, making it easy to understand during a noisy game.
Originally Siamese was purely monosyllabic, that is, each true word consisted of a single vowel sound preceded by, or followed by, a consonant.
The language now consists of about 15,000 words, of which compounds of two monosyllabic words and appropriations from foreign sources form a very large part.
Peter Dinklage's performance is particularly good, particularly since his dialog is almost monosyllabic for much of the film.
Certainly, in media interviews the normally voluble economics graduate was virtually monosyllabic, his face resembling an Easter Island statue.
