Comment by nlitened
4 months ago
> Human language has roughly, say, 36% encoding redundancy on purpose.
The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training. Compare with redundancy in math notation, for example.
> The purpose is being understandable by a person of average intellect and no specialized training.
The purpose probably is keeping human speech understandable through the often noise-filled channel of ambient sound. Human speech with no redundancy would have a hard time fighting the noise floor.