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Re:Crokinole by mike_ivanov on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:32PM (#41871726)
Lexical watermarking! If that's the case (and if this idea sticks), I'm wondering how far it could go.

One could imagine a (dystopian?) world where everybody speaks they own highly individualized, maybe even copyrighted language, and where interpersonal communications happen via AI translators.

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Re:Crokinole by collingreen on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:18PM (#41872195)
:( is this our generations version of cyberpunk theme?
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Re:Crokinole by peeters on Thursday October 17, 2024 @11:33PM (#41876126)
That would be an interesting contrast to 1984's dystopian Newspeak, which aimed to eliminate all individuality in language.
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Re:Crokinole by mike_ivanov on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:27PM (#41881583)
That would be its dialectical counterpart
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Re:Crokinole by voidUpdate on Friday October 18, 2024 @03:18AM (#41877056)
This used to be a thing in dictionaries. My favourite word is "Esquivalience", which was defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as "The wilful avoidance of ones official responsibilities". Prior to that, the word didn't exist, and it was used to catch people just copying the words from their dictionary. Very similar to paper towns on maps
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