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telegrams get along without them.
Redundancy arises from the excess of rules with which languages
burden themselves. These rules are mostly prohibitions—"Thou shalt not
say 'dese' or 'dose' for 'these' or 'those'"; "Thou shalt not spell 'separate' as
'seprate' "; "Thou shalt not say 'is' after 'I.'" All such limitations exclude
perfectly usable combinations of letters. If a language permitted any
permutation of, say, four letters to be a word, such as "ngwv," then
456,976 words would exist. This is approximately the number of entries
in an unabridged English dictionary. Such a language could, therefore,
express the same amount of information as English. But because English
prohibits such combinations as "ngwv," it must go beyond the four-letter
limit to express its ideas. Thus English is more wasteful, more redundant
than this hypothetical four-letter language.
The rules that lead to redundancy come from grammar ("I am," not "I
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