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Comment by LoL on June 27, 2012 at 1:07

Heh ... nice one, Adonis : )

The Meaning of Liff seems relevant at this juncture - Examples here

As for the de Bon Code, for once I do not feel that this contributes any benefits to our ... meaning Humanity's ... lives but, rather, would add to the confusion

Firstly, it is sidesteps the issue of the need to translate the new code into the very thing it aims to obviate ... extant language ... and does not actually do so, but overloads the extant system by requiring people to hold in their heads both the code and its mappings to that already extant language

Secondly, it would add even further to the cognitive load of people, such as police officers, who already use such code forms [1] - In a strange way it is potentially the same problem as the one faced by film/television producers/directors and authors wishing to achieve veracity in their portrayal of a world in which voice-controlled technology is the norm [2] & [5]

I think a more efficacious approach to the problem to which dBC addresses itself would simply be for dBT to be universally taught from birth and practiced through life : )

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[1] They'd have to say "10/4 dBC" to clarify that they did not mean "10/4" in the other code - And the potential for communications failing, just before they say the "dBC" ... someone mis-remembering that "dBC" was said, when it wasn't ... or their simply not registering it in the heat of the (life-threatening) moment ... could be disastrous

[2] If people control their technology by voice-command in the near future [3] then there is potential for dialogue in such media to accidentally trigger actions in the viewer's/listener's real-world environment ... or even that of someone simply unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of such dialogue without being actively engaged with it themself ... so, the choice is either to forego veracity and leave the characters either without voice-controlled technology or, for some reason (either contrived or simply unstated), unable to avail themselves of that feature ... or to forego veracity in a different manner, by having the dialogue either rendered inaudible in some way [4] or else in some way nullify the efect (by repetition, for instance; example: "Call call James" or "Television, change change channel channel") - And even that latter is fraught with the same risk, if the technology itself is not sufficiently discriminating

Moreover the extra cognitive load for the audience, separating the solution from the experience ... having to suspend disbelief, so to speak, with regard to tacit understanding of the reason for solution as well as with regard to the already present need to do so in areas of personal expertise and situational facors (Science Fiction or Fantasy, cartoons, etc.) ... would make the subconscious effort required greater - Not a happy state of affairs, when one wishes to produce or take part in an immersive experience

[3] Something which has been suggested for a long time now and, indeed, we have already had voice-control mobile/cellular telephones for a long time now

[4] A bleep, or silence by way of example of a crude measures

[5] I find the conjecture that that this is an example of a Non-polynomial Time Complete (NPC) phenomenon ... in that the two vastly dissimilar problems are, in fact, one and the same ... intriguing