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by pliftkl 3936 days ago
The spoken language has some horrible holes in it. A couple of my favorite examples: "You cannot put too much salt in a margarita" (which has two completely opposite meanings) and "I did not say he beat his dog" (which can have seven different underlying meanings depending on where you put the inflection).
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Yeah, inflection is really interesting. Now I'm reading the examples for this programming language and putting emphasis on random words, lol