Interesting idea. So basically any word with greater than 3 characters could be converted into beginning / end char and a number representing the number of char

Interesting idea. So basically any word with greater than 3 characters could be converted into beginning / end char and a number representing the number of chars in between. I wonder how much of our ability to read text like that is based on context though. Also, I'm going to assume that this only works with fairly common words (which is unique for each person). For example, I'm guessing running said compression on the works of Shakespeare wouldn't work as well, since most people struggle to make sense of them to begin with.