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Lexical watermarking! If that's the case (and if this idea sticks), I'm wondering how far it could go. One could imagine a (dystopian?) world where everybody s
by mike_ivanov 2y ago
Lexical watermarking! If that's the case (and if this idea sticks), I'm wondering how far it could go.
One could imagine a (dystopian?) world where everybody speaks they own highly individualized, maybe even copyrighted language, and where interpersonal communications happen via AI translators.
- collingreen 2y ago:( is this our generations version of cyberpunk theme?
- peeters 2y agoThat would be an interesting contrast to 1984's dystopian Newspeak, which aimed to eliminate all individuality in language.
- mike_ivanov 2y agoThat would be its dialectical counterpart
- voidUpdate 2y agoThis used to be a thing in dictionaries. My favourite word is "Esquivalience", which was defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as "The wilful avoidance of ones official responsibilities". Prior to that, the word didn't exist, and it was used to catch people just copying the words from their dictionary. Very similar to paper towns on maps