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by Legend2440 851 days ago
>that effectively extends the English grammar to include the entire world state

Exactly! So glad we're on the same page.

Language is created by and intended for big brains with huge amounts of knowledge about each other and about the world. Relying on external knowledge makes it extremely compact and flexible, but also means your parser needs a similar level of knowledge to function.

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>So glad we're on the same page

We're really not. I'm saying you've incorrectly defined the English language. By that definition, no piece of text is English.