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> Human language has roughly, say, 36% encoding redundancy on purpose. The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized
by nlitened 1y ago
> Human language has roughly, say, 36% encoding redundancy on purpose.
The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training. Compare with redundancy in math notation, for example.
- Qem 1y ago> The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training. The purpose probably is keeping human speech understandable through the often noise-filled channel of ambient sound. Human speech with no redundancy would have a hard time fighting the noise floor.