[ExI] internet privacy

[William Flynn Wallace]

> The point of language is to communicate meaning. So words have to mean
> the same thing to other speakers of that language. So you look at
> context. That's how dead languages are eventually translated.
> Codes on the other hand are a jumble of meaningless letters until the
> key is applied.
>
> BilllK
>

​I am not convinced.  A completely new language, not akin to Indo European
or anything else, is just a jumble of meaningless letters without a key.​

​How could you figure out the context?  It could be a car manual or poems
on death for all you know.   bill w​
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