SilasBarta comments on Zwicky's Trifecta of Illusions - Less Wrong

18 Post author: thomblake 17 July 2009 04:59PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 17 July 2009 09:47:18PM 1 point [-]

Well, he might not want to point to such a text message in his defense, because it would work against his claim that less than 10% of the words are abbreviated!

Seriously, only 10%?

Comment author: thomblake 18 July 2009 03:48:02AM 1 point [-]

It sounds plausible to me, depending on what's being communicated. There aren't really a lot of words with convenient shorthand. Though you can usually get away with leaving out vowels.