Word Entropy

[Koen G]

An interesting experiment, Marco. So basically long words are abbreviated in a way that creates some homographs? (Homograph is the general category that includes homonym so I tink it's better here).

I wonder if you were to do something like this to an English text, if we would still be able to understand its meaning? It probably depends on the way words are abbreviated.

Let's take the sentence: I am typing on my keyboard. Then only "keyboard" would be abbreviated.
* I am typing on my kbrd 
* I am typing on my kqrd
* I am typing on my k~rd

Depending on the way it is done, and sufficient context, it might actually work without considerable loss of information.

Something like this might also explain the issues we have with word length variation?