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0 pointsZoFreX11y ago0 comments

> And apq’uxasiu for 'gawk' doesn't strike me as a particularly huge win for conciseness.

It seems like it's missing the linguistic equivalent of huffman coding: make frequently used things shorter.

Also, it's hardly concise with respect to time if you have to spend 30 minutes consulting a dictionary to utter a single sentence.

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The huffman coding strategy relies too much on culture to remain properly useful over different groups and time.

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0 pointsZoFreX11y ago0 comments

> And apq’uxasiu for 'gawk' doesn't strike me as a particularly huge win for conciseness.

It seems like it's missing the linguistic equivalent of huffman coding: make frequently used things shorter.

Also, it's hardly concise with respect to time if you have to spend 30 minutes consulting a dictionary to utter a single sentence.

The huffman coding strategy relies too much on culture to remain properly useful over different groups and time.

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