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Re:Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programm... by staplers on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:40PM (#43576769)
Extending this further, "natural language" changes within populations over time where words or phrases carry different meaning given context. The words "cancel" or "woke" were fairly banal a decade ago. Whereas they can be deeply charged now.

All this to say "natural language"'s best function is interpersonal interaction not defining systems. I imagine most systems thinkers will understand this. Any codified system is essentially its own language.

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