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Given that you're communicating to an agent who can use context for disambiguation, all efficient languages will be ambiguous. http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci
by canjobear 12y ago
Given that you're communicating to an agent who can use context for disambiguation, all efficient languages will be ambiguous.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027711002496 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027711... (Sorry for the paywall...)
So maybe Ithkuil isn't what a language should be after all. And maybe that's why no natural language looks like it...
- induscreep 12y agoSo basically language decoding is multimodal like one of the other comments here said? Like in digital communication, perfect decoding needs appropriate SNR (context) in addition to optimal spectral efficiency (conciseness/preciseness of the language). Interesting research.