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Daily random thread: almost almost the weekend edition (June 15, 2023) (self.melbourne)

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AKA: Daily random thread: Baku doing the posting cuz nobody has invented automoderator for Lemmy yet

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think morse code is not another language, it is a different way of creating the letters of our language. Much like shorthand and (I presume) brail.

Would fully binary communication even count as a language, or would it be more like direct communication of computer brainwaves, more like telepathy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Would fully binary communication even count as a language, or would it be more like direct communication of computer brainwaves, more like telepathy?

Words are effectively communication of human brainwaves, so it would probably be considered a language, yes, since it lets two machines effectively talk to each other.

Do stenography chords count as a language of their own then? SKRET T*EBGS is hardly intelligible as a way of constructing letters normally.