Language is a way of composing functions by making them low dimensional and discrete. I think of artificial languages (programming and math) as bottoming out in logical functions, natural languages in perceptual categories (which includes the perception of transitions and agency)
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Replying to @Plinz
Parts-of-speech are the standard function arguments. A lot of the work in phrasing a thought comes in arranging, tagging & reformulating words to better serve their part-of-speech roles. I loved the cleanness of Esperanto (o-nouns, a-adj, e-adv..), like going from CXXIII to 123.
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Replying to @elzr
Esperanto is the Dvorak keyboard among languages. 20% better, but that is not enough to give sufficient reason for adoption except among nerds...
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