Re: Universal grammar

LEE Sau Dan wrote:
"Rob" == Rob Freeman <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Rob> Incompressible strings can be our mathematical model for
Rob> human language, and as a model they can be a more compact
Rob> representation for information than rules.

More compact: yes. More appropriate? Probably not.

Lee Sau Dan, Why?

-Rob

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