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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if we just used lots more parenthesis like God and John McCarthy intended, this would all be trivial
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Come up with a new symbol. English has already fucked up parentheses (e.g. by putting the period inside them.)
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(and nesting (not allowed))
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dis for new language so nbd
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I'm starting to think that making it postfix instead of in fix would reduce the need for groupings, but likely at the cost of readability.
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One of the hardest things to do in all human experience is explain to people who don't speak math that math is a language and there are things you can say in it which either you can't say at all in English or which are important in math but are trivial or irrational in English
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(Substitute any commonly spoken language for English, of course, not being an English hater here. :) )
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