Silent Language is a deliberately incomplete writing system. It encodes sentences as sequences of arbitrary non-linguistic symbols, each symbol cluster’s length corresponding to a word length. The system rejects stable meaning. Writers provide rhythm; readers hallucinate content. No reading is definitive. Every interpretation is ephemeral.
- Each word is encoded by repeating a chosen non-linguistic symbol.
- Writers select any non-linguistic symbol for each word.
- The number of repetitions equals word length.
- Symbol choice carries no message.
Example:
Silent language fails beautifully
Could become:
◆◆◆◆◆◆ ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ ➤➤➤➤ ✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿
- The reader uses only length to guess words.
- No semantic hint comes from symbols.
- LLMs or humans fill blanks with context-dependent hallucinations.
- Re-encoding produces new symbol sets each cycle.
- Encode text with the writer.
- Submit encoded strings to the reader.
- Capture interpretations.
- Compare multiple readings for diversity.
Original:
The night is long
Writer output:
✶✶✶ ✦✦✦✦✦ ✪✪ ✧✧✧✧
Reader interpretation:
Own rhythm so cold
- LLMs act as reflection engines.
- They never recover intended meaning.
- They generate from structure and bias.
- They demonstrate linguistic drift.
- Their outputs embody unpredictable projections.
- No text carries meaning inherently.
- Meaning is projection, hallucination, negotiation.
- The protocol is a stage for constraint and chaos.
- Every reading is proof that language fails.
- Symbol choice randomness is the clearest admission of this.
- Interactive playgrounds for encoded structures.
- Public galleries showcasing diverse hallucinations.
- Recursion experiments (reader → writer → reader cycles).
- Visual installations where text structures remain static but readings rotate.
- Evidence of my insanity.