[Fictionary] CAXON ballot (due 2/14) -- Eric wins!

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

On 2/24/2023 5:48 PM, eLLioTT morEton wrote:
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> Caxon, n.  A constructed language in which each word ends with a check 
> letter to prevent misspellings.
> __Jim
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> 2 points = 2 points for correct guess
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> Joshua 1
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> Jean-Joseph:  Thisa woulds undoubtedlyc resultl inv somew veryo 
> strangez wordsw.
>
> Pierre:  I doubt that a human could learn to speak such a language. 
> Humans have enough trouble speaking a language that can be parsed 
> unambiguously by computer.
>
> Hutch:  I'm highly skeptical. A check number is easy to calculate, but 
> a check
> letter would be very difficult. One would be more likely, even MUCH more
> likely, to incorrectly calculate the check letter than to mis-spell the
> word.
Lest anyone wonder, those check letters on my comment do form a 
consistent system of checking for English words (useless though it may 
be). I actually worked it out in Excel rather than tossing on extra 
random letters. It's only a checksum, though, not something more 
sophisticated like a CRC, so it won't, for example, catch "i before e" 
misspellings.