ASCII hack failure of language. Even in mathematics, ! has multiple meanings like with Boolean NOT. We need a science, math, and language reformation to remove non intuitive narcissistic names, and implied contextual meanings.
.i la lojban cu mutce lo ka smuske tinsa .i ku’i ly. na logji prane pe’i .i loi jbopre cu piso’iroi da’asnu lo ka prane nitcu .i ru’a lo klamburi cu na’e lojbo ka’u .i jy. xebni lo malgli .iseju lo nu lojbo klamburi zbasu cu nandu ba’a jeku’i cumki
Lojban is very semantically rigid, but not perfectly logical IMO. Lojbanists often argue about the necessity of logical perfection. I suspect that puns might not be seen as culturally Lojbanic. Lojbanists hate Anglicisms or bits of English leaking into the way they speak Lojban. Regardless, making Lojbanic puns might be difficult but it’s possible.
I’ve never seen ! used for boolean NOT in maths, just ¬. I think ! is something programming languages went for because it’s easier to type. That said, screw (a, b). Is that a (coordinate) pair, an interval, an inner product, some secret fourth thing? Who knows!
On the flipside we have other symbols for things like Delta and Epsilon, Summation, cross-product, dot-product, curvature, tau, etc and most people would probably not memorize all of these or go through the effort to type them.
Plus it needing context to discern makes it harder for AI, too, so win-win.
ASCII hack failure of language. Even in mathematics, ! has multiple meanings like with Boolean NOT. We need a science, math, and language reformation to remove non intuitive narcissistic names, and implied contextual meanings.
You might find Lojban interesting if you are not already aware. (I haven’t tried to learn it myself, I just know it exists)
Relevant xkcd
https://xkcd.com/191/
If someone wants to start a Lojban pun community, I would definitely subscribe just to learn about Lojban.
Although, if no one posted in the community, I wouldn’t be sure if it was a perfectly logical language or the community was just dead.
.i la lojban cu mutce lo ka smuske tinsa .i ku’i ly. na logji prane pe’i .i loi jbopre cu piso’iroi da’asnu lo ka prane nitcu .i ru’a lo klamburi cu na’e lojbo ka’u .i jy. xebni lo malgli .iseju lo nu lojbo klamburi zbasu cu nandu ba’a jeku’i cumki
I believe you mean, “nice pun!”
I’ve never seen ! used for boolean NOT in maths, just ¬. I think ! is something programming languages went for because it’s easier to type. That said, screw (a, b). Is that a (coordinate) pair, an interval, an inner product, some secret fourth thing? Who knows!
Inner products are written as ⟨a,b⟩, no? Fair point on the interval, tho
On the flipside we have other symbols for things like Delta and Epsilon, Summation, cross-product, dot-product, curvature, tau, etc and most people would probably not memorize all of these or go through the effort to type them.
Plus it needing context to discern makes it harder for AI, too, so win-win.
Greek is a hack too. There is no reason a standard should be obtuse or memorized. Symbolic notation can be intuitive without gatekeeping nonsense
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