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Pictish symbols revealed as a language through application of Shannon entropy

• arethuza 17y ago
  Another mystery from the same region is how they managed to melt thousands of tons of rocks to make forts with vitrified walls: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort The Tap o' Noth in particular is rather impressive.
  • BerislavLopac 17y ago
    They didn't -- it was melted by the dragons that attacked those forts. ;)
• dood 17y ago
  Mark Liberman at Language Log has doubts: [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2227 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2227]
• DennisP 17y ago
  A long time ago I read that someone applied a statistical test for language to human DNA. They found that DNA which codes for proteins failed the test, but "junk" DNA passed. I'm sure there's a mundane explanation, but it was fun speculating about what it might say.