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Re:A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist by ifdefdebug on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:58PM (#14598555)
> I don't think that's true.

It's literally true for what we are doing right now in this moment: emitting information through a keyboard.

But even then, it feels like we are doing much better than that. Maybe because we use implicit cross-referencing all the time.

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Re:A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist by wutbrodo on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:49AM (#14601030)
> It's literally true for what we are doing right now in this moment: emitting information through a keyboard.

The claim is that we _can't_ emit more than a few bits per second, and the rebuttal is that we can. Providing an example that's under the threshold is completely irrelevant.

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