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Reminds me of the language of the Observers in Fringe, whose language was so advanced it was rare to see repeating symbols.
by Vanit 9y ago
Reminds me of the language of the Observers in Fringe, whose language was so advanced it was rare to see repeating symbols.
- tpeo 9y agoSomehow this doesn't seem like a desirable property in a language. One of the purposes of (human? inter-sentient?) languages is the reliable transmission of information. Verbosity and repetition in language have a purpose similar to that of redundancy in engineering: they ensure that if someone misses out a part of the message, the whole message isn't ruined. If your message being get across is predicated on successfully transmitting an arbitrarily large sequence of symbols where every one of them might be crucial (supposing that word frequency is inversely proportional to meaningfulness, which is rather reasonable), this "talking" thing would get hard pretty fast.