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If there's a clearer and more specific way to speak about something, we should try to use it.
by fiatjaf 10y ago
If there's a clearer and more specific way to speak about something, we should try to use it.
- eru 10y agoDesign of language is a constant trade-off, between ease of remembering, compression (ie giving shorter ways to express more common concepts), fault-tolerance, desire of the speaker to look clever, fashion, ... And all of us work on the evolution of language every day.