Re:A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
by lend000 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:27AM
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> we can only emit a few bits of information.
Perhaps if you measure against the text representation in ASCII, but it's not necessarily easy to quantify all of the other meaningful information that comes from tone, volume, accent, gestures, etc.
Such is to say that monkeys and birds can effectively transmit no information, which is not true.
Perhaps if you measure against the text representation in ASCII, but it's not necessarily easy to quantify all of the other meaningful information that comes from tone, volume, accent, gestures, etc.
Such is to say that monkeys and birds can effectively transmit no information, which is not true.