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• VMG 13y ago
  That is more about built-in redundancy and error correction than lossy compression.
  • zokier 13y ago
    But such features could be exploited to make lossy compression. If humans can recognize words with some of the letters randomized, then there is no need to store those letters individually. Instead just insert random letters at decomperssion phase.
• tbrownaw 13y ago
  http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/ http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/ I've written this page, to try to explain the science behind this meme. There are elements of truth in this, but also some things which scientists studying the psychology of language (psycholinguists) know to be incorrect. The page also contains a number of counter-examples, show that the result often is not "pflteecry uaaedlbdrsntne".
• reeses 13y ago
  This is in fact not proven for the entire population.