>>You should just see codebreakers tearing their hair out trying to crack that sort of thing. They just can't wrap their mind around the idea that certain information can just be gone.<<
Er, trained codebreakers, or codebreaker-linguists? A codebreaker-linguist would know better, I'd think, but a mathematically-inclined coder, yeowch their poor brain.
I wonder if anyone's tried that trick with different modality languages?
Also, this reminds me of a conlanging idea I once had, where a language split results in one language dropping a lot of the social nuances (think dropping formal-you, and most of the honorifics, and like, half the gendered terms.) Then you get interesting conflict when the two linguistic populations encounter each other again, still being somewhat intelligible on a technical sense but being too confusing/annoying in a practical sense.
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Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-02-07 06:21 am (UTC)>>You should just see codebreakers tearing their hair out trying to crack that sort of thing. They just can't wrap their mind around the idea that certain information can just be gone.<<
Er, trained codebreakers, or codebreaker-linguists? A codebreaker-linguist would know better, I'd think, but a mathematically-inclined coder, yeowch their poor brain.
I wonder if anyone's tried that trick with different modality languages?
Also, this reminds me of a conlanging idea I once had, where a language split results in one language dropping a lot of the social nuances (think dropping formal-you, and most of the honorifics, and like, half the gendered terms.) Then you get interesting conflict when the two linguistic populations encounter each other again, still being somewhat intelligible on a technical sense but being too confusing/annoying in a practical sense.