It's Cyrillic. The point is, the keyboard works just fine with this alphabet too.
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Sure that's not that awful but imagine if you had to insert accents on top of the letters.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @kkolozova and
English is economical because, like it’s people, it is lazy - and as such, it is complex, because, like it’s people, it requires the recipient to do the work for them
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Replying to @14JUN1995 @kkolozova and
English is complex at a basic syntactical structure which allows it to find a mechanical beauty down the road. It's the only language worthy of being exported to the whoever comes after us. All other languages, go for semantic richness but that's not the best solution.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @14JUN1995 and
Syntactic complexity is not about variation but simplicity and elegance in the information theoretical sense. That allows you to build extremely durable structures out of them.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @14JUN1995 and
from an informatic theory sense differences between any human languages are trivial
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Replying to @nath1as @14JUN1995 and
Not entirely, there are computational models that show some languages are more info efficient. Check the works of Samson Abrahasky and his students at Oxford.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @14JUN1995 and
that sounds interesting can you give me a more precise source?
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Replying to @nath1as @14JUN1995 and
Check Abrahamsky's webpage and his senior students theses. He is one of the greatest computer scientists of our time.
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https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/samson.abramsky/ … Look at his Phd student thesis particularly on the topic of statistical model of linguistic behaviors.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @nath1as and
His doctoral thesis is on Lambda calc and Scottian functional programming semantics, it seems - has he written about e.g. comparative entropy of specific natural languages?
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Replying to @Josh86480104 @nath1as and
No, just some short essays, but a couple of his students have written extensively on this topic.
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