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I wish there would be other ways to encode text, even phrases. I once put a lot of time to gather a very short list of the most used english words. Why not en
by jokoon 13y ago
I wish there would be other ways to encode text, even phrases.
I once put a lot of time to gather a very short list of the most used english words.
Why not encode a phrase with its grammar ?
- AaronFriel 13y agoBecause then you could never encode real works of literature that use esoteric or non-standard grammar. Good luck encoding Huckleberry Finn with your system. On the other hand, encoding smaller units reliably (phonemes, graphemes, whatever is appropriate) and using compression over top of that usually gets you really close to what you wanted, but with greater expressiveness. English text compresses really fantastically well, so why overthink it?