On Wed, 14 Sep 1994, Roland Dudley wrote:
> You've gone over the edge. British bikes AND British cars?!!
> MGHMOYS.
Since Mom Gibbons didn't raise any dumb boys, I quickly devined the
meaning of MGHMOYS. In fact, it suggested a way of saving bandwidth and
disk space (I returned from 6 days vacation to find nearly 300 messages).
There is a lot of redundancy in english. In fact, if we simply omitted
every sixth letter, I bet nbody wuld hae any poblem ndersandin everyhing.
W could xperient to ee wha the opimum i. Probaly evey fifh leter cold b
left ut wihout ausig any roblm, and he 20 savig of sace wuld b very uch
wrthwile. I xpec, howeer, tht leaing ot evey forth ettr wold sart o case
poblms, ad tht soe peple oul expriece dffiult. I am lmot cetai tha leaing
ut eery hir lete wold e to mch, ut erap no. I dub, hoevr, ha levig ot eer
seon lte cud ee wr.
Ry ibn
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
P.S. I wish this idea were mine, but it isn't. A friend, Bob Godt,
suggested something this years ago to stem the tide of scientific ink.
The world wasn't ready then, but now...
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