Re: Zero-entropy (was Re: FINAL QUESTION: your natlangs...)
| From: | Tommie Powell <tommiepowell@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 22:55 |
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-----Original Message-----
From: Terrence Donnelly <pag000@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Zero-entropy (was Re: FINAL QUESTION: your natlangs...)
>At 06:53 AM 10/7/98 -0000, Tommie Powell wrote:
>>In 1962, some mathematician at NSA "proved" that a "zero-entropy" language
>>would be theoretically possible. In other words, if you had such a
>>language, then, no matter how you jumbled up a sentence's symbols, the
>>result would be some other sentence that made sense.
>>
>>There's no such thing as an unbreakable code, but such a language would
have
>>the effect of making even the simplest of codes "unbreakable" because any
>>would-be code-breaker would never get any result that he could discard as
>>nonsensical (and hence he would never be able to rule out any possible
>>notion of how the messages were being encoded).
>>
>
>I realize from reading this that it is a good description of the principle
>behind my "quantum language" Bogomol. I didn't realize it was actually
>possible! (Since the Bogomoli are intelligent insects, I didn't place a
>high value on plausibility in constructing it.)
>
>In Bogomol, words can have many different meanings, and the proper reading
>of each word isn't determined until the end of the utterance by a "ranking
>syllable". If Bogomol were a code, you could transmit the individual words
>and send the ranking syllable by some other means. Among the Bogomoli,
>these potential meanings are closely monitored, so that inauspicious
>combinations
>can be avoided, or bon mots composed as a subtext to the main message.
>
>-- Terry
>
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