Tom_McCabe2 comments on Entropy, and Short Codes - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 February 2008 03:16AM

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 24 February 2008 01:49:22AM 0 points [-]

"Prosody too, for that matter - Tolkien once observed what a beautiful sound the phrase "cellar door" makes; that is the kind of awareness it takes to use language like Tolkien."

Out of curiosity, did you ever study Tolkien's languages.

Comment author: AshwinV 07 February 2014 10:53:08AM 0 points [-]

I personally found that after reading that one line, my estimation of Tolkien just shot through the roof. It's also kind of inspiring, in the sense, you want to now start writing because it just somehow seems.......... cooler.