A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies
Abstract
Can we explain the advantage natural languages enjoy over ideographies in a way that enables us to attempt the design of an ideography that "works"? I deploy an adapted version of Shannon's source- and channel-coding partitioning of a communication system to explain the communicative dynamics and shortfalls of ideographies, and reveal ways in which entrenchable, generalist ideographies could be designed.
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