Implications of the continuity of Currier "languages"
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It is not difficult to come up with a possible explanation for this. In fact, one can up with many different possible explanations, both based on a meaningful text or on a meaningless text.
The difficulty is deciding which one is the right one.

Just some examples:
- two people started on a common agreement and both drifted in a different direction. (This can work both for meaningful and meaningless texts)
- there is a system behind the words that allows for some degree of freedom
- the words are some form of enumeration system and the structure of 'higher numbers' looks like a different language / dialect.
- the meaningful part of the text is only a fraction of what we see, and the Currier language properties are caused by the meaningless filler.

Note that the fourth case is not really a different case. It could be an example of both the first two cases.
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RE: Implications of the continuity of Currier "languages" - by ReneZ - 20-12-2018, 01:35 PM

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