Checksum
Started: 2004-06-03 15:58:29
Submitted: 2004-06-03 16:06:46
Visibility: World-readable
I had a bizarre idea not that long ago -- what if spoken languages included a checksum in each sentence so that the recipient would know when she didn't properly parse the sentence or it was garbled in transmission? The language would define some algorithm that a human could easily perform to create a checksum on every sentence. Small children (and non-native speakers) would learn the checksum algorithm as they learned the language itself. The rest of the world would think the language bizarre, but native speakers would know better.
mom describes her third child.
- Scott J. Galvin, 14 January 2002