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minus-squaremagz :3linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 month agoon that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-21 month agoPeople try and use commas for this sort of clarification and are eviscerate for it. With these sort of math problems, the rules are taught early and then all subsequent math is written in an unambiguous form. Language has the oddity of going the other way around where the rules get more complex as a display for advanced skills.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 month agoeviscerated God, can you even spell??? Get your act together. /s
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoMy language teachers always told me it was bad form to use too much or even to nest parenthesis… Then I found lisp…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoWe have them in written language, though?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoIsn’t that basically what commas are for?
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoThis is why grammar is important, and “grammar nazis” are the only good kind of nazis.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agohttps://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-section-chunks/section-parentheses.html Also https://xkcd.com/191/. Also https://vlasisku.lojban.org/xekce. Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv0QIbGc8i8.
on that note, can we please have parentheses in language. i keep making ambiguous sentences
People try and use commas for this sort of clarification and are eviscerate for it.
With these sort of math problems, the rules are taught early and then all subsequent math is written in an unambiguous form.
Language has the oddity of going the other way around where the rules get more complex as a display for advanced skills.
eviscerated
God, can you even spell???
Get your act together.
/s
My language teachers always told me it was bad form to use too much or even to nest parenthesis…
Then I found lisp…
Lost In Stupid Parenthesis.
We have them in written language, though?
Isn’t that basically what commas are for?
Why (I don’t see) not
This is why grammar is important, and “grammar nazis” are the only good kind of nazis.
https://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-section-chunks/section-parentheses.html
Also https://xkcd.com/191/. Also https://vlasisku.lojban.org/xekce. Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv0QIbGc8i8.