there's this thing in constructing dependency trees of sentences I've been calling the pajama problem
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one of the things I'm adamant on for emoji language is parens for logical grouping so you can easily distinguish like
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"I shot a robber in my house" could encode which of the two parties, and one or both, was in the house
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"I [sbj] house in robber [obj] shoot [past]" = me in house robber outside, vs "I [sbj] robber [obj] house in shoot [past]" or "(I [subj] robber [obj]) house in shoot [past]"
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incidentally the original intent of parens was to denote whole clauses used as modifiers and to group modifiers themselves
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I was gonna commasep but then someone pointed out "oh neat how would you do 'or'?" so god help me I might use & and |
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How hard is it to determine all possible meanings, so you can ask someone using an editor?
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you mean like display/allow selection of possible parses in a text editor? that's a really interesting idea I hadn't thought of that
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I thought it'd be a real useful feature for language translators that you're using for communication (where you can edit what's being translated), but this reminded me of it. I'm lazy and never did anything with it.
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"I, in my pajamas, shot an elephant" doesn't really sound weird, as long as you add the comma.
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