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I lol'd at his stereotypical nerdiness.
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Anonymous2008-06-10 10:42
>>4
``Why do you bother with Haskell?'' is the right question.
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Anonymous2008-06-10 10:45
>>4
It is a language that helps reduce ambiguity by guaranteeing that words are not overloaded with multiple definitions. Reducing ambiguity will help us communicate more meaningfully.
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Anonymous2008-06-10 10:47
>>8
``Us'' as in ``all 150 fluent speakers of lojban''?
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Anonymous2008-06-10 11:25
>>8
Ambiguity creeps into any naturally evolving language. I suspect that Lojban's dearth of fluent speakers and its top-down approach to language change helps to prevent that, but if it were to become popular I expect you would get plenty of ambiguity.
And it's not necessarily a bad feature of a language. Much comedic wordplay and ``white lies'' rely on ambiguity to be effective.