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Yes, compression algorithms work, because they are tied to a specific file format, that everyone knows exactly how to read. That's not exactly the case with language, but it's similar. We share context during the speech act, but often not enough for communication to work. Rather, the context is culturally and situationally embedded. What language does is not to communicate meaning by directly referencing the world (compressed or not), but to affect certain acts by it's use in context. That's why Wittgenstein, who came up with these ideas long before AI, sais, that human communication consists of moves in a shared language game. Another funny comic about this.