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the messy code humans compile in real time, no manual, typos included.
means any language that evolved organically among people, as opposed to one engineered like a programming language.
from the phrase gained traction in 20th-century linguistics and computer science, drawing a hard line between english or mandarin, which grew wild over centuries, and languages like fortran, which were designed on purpose in a room.
no inventorno single person designed english, it just happened
ambiguity everywheretime flies like an arrow has five parses
nlp's whole jobgetting computers to survive our sloppiness
always changingrizz entered the dictionary, dictionaries can't keep up
for instance
english — 1.5 billion speakers, roughly none agree on grammar
mandarin chinese — tones change meaning, mā vs mà, mother vs scold
swahili — grew from trade along the east african coast for centuries
sign languages — asl and bsl evolved naturally, no shared root with speech