Word Sass?

So, I've been corresponding with some of my linguist friends about this over the past few days. Most agree that this wouldn't work for agglutinating languages, like Hungarian. In an agglutinating language, things like tense, gender, etc. are expressed in single syllables that are added to a root, and each syllable has one meaning to it- e.g. 'male' or 'past'. It also wouldn't work for any templatic languages, like Hebrew or any of the Semitic languages. Those of you who know some Hebrew can probably see what I mean pretty easily.

Another odd bit- the first letters of each syllable in almost all of the words occurs in roughly the correct place, give or take a position or two. So it's more like it doesn't matter what order the letters in a word are, as long as the first and last letters and first letter of each syllable are in the right spot. I assume it wouldn't be as effective if this weren't the case- e.g. if "research" were spelled "raeecrsh".

excuse me?