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Subject: Re: Words as well as characters as encoding units
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> My layman's impression could certainly be wrong. But to me this seems
> to be that LZW normally attempts to find as much correlations between
> words as possible, which to a large part might actually not be
> profitable work in practice.

Can you name a language without correlations? Can you even point at digital data 
which is uncorrelated? (I'd exclude SETI captures here :^), that is likely 
uncorrelated data)