26 Letters- The Dimensions of Language
There are 26 letters in the English language.
It seems there are 171,476 words in use in the English language (400,000+ "entries" these days, for whatever that's worth).
There are 4,395 posts as of now on this blog. I would guesstimate this represents about 200,000 sentences (wildest guestimation here), and outside of those sentences or lines that I have intentionally repeated (the sun is shining), quoted Bible verses, or the few posts I may have accidentally copied from my old blog twice, I imagine you would be hard pressed to find any sentences repeated (let's say 99+% sentences are unique outside of these noted exceptions). Additionally, I imagine I could keep writing in this way and it would be quite some time before sentences began consistently repeating without me intending it (or even without me having to explicitly attempt not to repeat myself).
Outside of plagiarism, quotation, or the intentional duplication by the same author (like a couple of notable posts here) has the same full length paragraph ever been written twice?
It is hard to imagine how long it would actually take for a million monkeys on a million typewriters to actually write one act of Shakespeare, much less one play or the complete works.
This just sprang to mind as an example of relatively few inputs rapidly becoming a vast pool when something akin to additional "dimensions" are added, as a continuation of the idea of communicating outside of one's own base dimensions. Would this blog be something like a "letter" to one observing it from 5 dimensions, or perhaps more like a word? Outside of an entirely shared genetic code (one's own subconscious) would this even be a blip to one operating in 11 dimensions? I find it interesting to think about these kinds of things.
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