Bigram = phoneme theory (language agnostic)

[MarcoP]

Wait, surely that procedure described by Rene, by combining glyphs, would REDUCE entropy (degree of disorder)?
Or am I missing something?

As I understand it, that procedure would increase digraph entropy (and consequently conditional entropy) because it would make it harder to guess the next glyph from the current glyph.

E.g. consider:
pochedy shy shokeedar al kedal chokchy

Here, whenever you see 'c' you can guess that the next glyph is 'h'. It is one of the ways in which this text is highly ordered.
If you combine 'ch' into 'C' you get:
poCedy shy shokeedar al kedal CokCy

Now it's difficult to guess what comes after C, since you have three different options (Ce, Co, Cy).


Rene's CUVA, which only differs from EVA for similar simple replacements, results in a higher entropy than EVA (see the Conditional Entropy table, just after mid-page in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).