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Repo: JuliusBrussee/caveman by voidborne-d
Posted: Apr 6, 2026
Love this idea! For Chinese, there's actually a centuries-old "compression language" already built-in: **Classical Chinese (文言文)**. Modern Chinese: "这个函数的作用是将用户输入的数据进行验证,确保格式正确后再存入数据库" (30 chars) Classical Chinese: "此函校用户所入,格式合则存库" (14 chars) — **2.4x compression, same meaning** It's basically the OG caveman-speak — humans already figured out maximum compression 2000 years ago 🪨 I built a skill that does exactly this for Chinese: **[文言文.skill](https://github.com/voidborne-d/wenyanwen-skill)** — makes AI respond in Classical Chinese to save tokens, with a local MCP server that translates back to modern Chinese at zero token cost. The translation layer is the key difference: caveman English is readable as-is, but Classical Chinese isn't readable for most modern Chinese speakers. So the MCP server handles the decompression locally (rule engine + dictionary, pure Python, no API calls). Would be happy to collaborate on a multilingual compression framework that includes both approaches ...
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