This link ( https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/AZjiguV9DUU/NonZSOLuCAAJ ) is a start at an explanation that letters are the (alphabetic) symbols used to form words that are a Special index into a Dictionary of meanings. Generalizing this yields the realization that there are MANY more "nonWord" strings than there are Words (even in a rich language like Chinese).
It's interesting that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_telegraph_code was effective as a way of using co-ordinates as an index into a dictionary of Words that conveyed meaningful information very efficiently. Obviously, with TiddlyWiki's UTF-8 support, we can do very much better by building a vastly larger dictionary of accepted meanings. This might initially just be thought of as yest another "jargon". Perhaps, upon reflection, the use of English vocabulary is similar. I have learned that newspapers are written using a very small subset of English words since few folk have mastered a significant subset of the unabridged Oxford dictionary. Hence they simply consider their omitted words to be "meaningless" in the contexts of their interests. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/51809f80-7dd2-4e5e-bdb0-a5020146e64bo%40googlegroups.com.
