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by jasonwatkinspdx 1437 days ago
A related rant I've had over the years: the redundancy present in human language is not a flaw to be optimized away. Evolution went there because it acts as a form of forward error correction.
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Except when the complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. :P
Wow, I've never seen such a good one. I spent a solid minute frozen in this garden!
That's not redundancy, that's multiplexing!