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Re: Impossible Gibberish (was Re: On the design of an ideal language)

From:Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 16:42
"This" (re inefficient redundancy) was only referring back to the top
of my reply, where I mentioned nonagreement.

Self-segregation isn't something I thought of when I wrote ODIL, but
I'd file it under noise resistance. Yes, again it balances against
PSC. Perhaps not necesarily, if of sufficiently clever design?

Only suggestion I have at the moment for how to had noise-reduction is
to have multiple forms of words - their 'long form' (probably the
default, and some way(s?) to regularly shorten them considerably -
either to strip of phonetic/morphological redundancy, or to strip of
perhaps even semantic redundancy - e.g. bits that would distinguish
jargon about some particular field from others', and turn it into a
more generic word that would be understood with context.

At base, this idea is the same as 'hashing' in CS; the constraint here
of course is what can be done easily during 'runtime' by human
cognition.

- Sai