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So, to English speakers, homophones might look like unfortunate side effects of using an inferior symbol sets or something, I don't think that is how languages end up with a lot of homophones - rather, I think it's the result of a lossy compression; there are just such set of same tokens and circuits of thoughts that are addressed from different context for different effects.

And I think your lookup table thinking is halfway there to a deep understanding of the matter, it does work like a forward lookup from ideograms to meanings and pronunciation cues. sure you can sub:4 idea:5 wit:1 phne:2 Alph, and homo:7 dis:32 with num:2 idx for std:6 def:3, but I wonder if us humans are really good with that data model.