Spaces and Entropy

[cvetkakocj@rogers.com]

I'm not sure how to put it differently:

Abbreviations increase entropy.
Verbosity decreases entropy.

It is really just a simple matter of information content divided by text length.

Statistics is not my thing, so I am reluctant to add my ideas, however, I believe it might point all of you into a new direction. I don't know about other languages, but Slovenian language was first taught by pronouncing syllables. In any old grammar book, there was a table of syllables which can include up to five letters. The table of syllables show is from the first Slovenian printed book in 1550.  
   
After mastering syllables, a text was written by dividing the words into syllables, as shown in the Our Father prayer. 
     
By the end of the 17th century, the most words included proper vowels, but the words as still short, since there were not that many complicated compound words.
   
Inserting the vowels for semi-vowels came into practice in the first Slovenian books, however, in the dialectal speech, the semi-vowels were not pronounced and if written down, it would look as if it was written in semi-abjad.
 Assuming that the author of the VM wrote down the words as he heard them, he would miss a lot of vowels. 
On the other hand, there was a practice in Slavic writing before the time of the printing press to join several short unstressed words in so-called word blocks. This could increase the length of the word, but decrease the number of vowels. 
In Slovenian language, there is also problem with the way the words are built by adding the syllables and making new words. In this case, a long word could be divided into three different words, each having a separate meaning.

I don't know if any other language has similar characteristics. But these are a few ideas to consider.