DeLong@delong·Feb 1, 2015“@Shishiqiushi: @delong chinese twitter… charecters carry much more info content than letters” <— good argument that Mandarin is our future311
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 1, 2015Replying to @pmarca@pmarca @delong @Shishiqiushi Not info content. It's a conceptual precision/metaphor/affect tradeoff space.11
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vgr@pmarca @delong @Shishiqiushi There's interesting insight into this via Star Trek. http://theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/star-trek-tng-and-the-limits-of-language-shaka-when-the-walls-fell/372107/…8:54 PM · Feb 1, 20153 Likes