What are the characteristics of Labelese?

[Koen G]

Well, abbreviation would indeed be a good way to unintentionally generate homography. What we shouldn't forget is that readers can become very good at understanding words from context. An identical abbreviation might be read differently depending on the surrounding subject matter.

Still, Marco, I get what you're saying. There's also the matter of rampant almost-identical words which makes the problem all that more complex.