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It's hard to overstate the importance of redundancy in natural languages.

This is the whole reason we are able to make ourselves understood in a noisy, imprecise world. Even if you miss a few syllables - or even half a sentence, you can usually piece together what the other person was trying to say.

Imagine someone technology-illiterate trying to describe a problem they're having with their computer in this language. Impossible.

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It's hard to overstate the importance of redundancy in natural languages.

There are other factors at play, such that speech perception is multi-modal. E.g. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect