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I remember doing some research on language for a psychology course in college and I think it's important to warn hacker news that the expieriences people have w
by c3534l 7y ago
I remember doing some research on language for a psychology course in college and I think it's important to warn hacker news that the expieriences people have with nouns being more intuitive and fundamental is absolutely not a cultural universal. Westerners place unusual emphasis on nouns and while it may be that "get" is less specific than "item_id" in English, it may be more be the opposite if you speak a language that has specific and concrete verbs and abstract nouns. This is one of those times where your intuition about what is logical and obvious might be wrong.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoKadir beneath Mo Moteh. Speaking of which, I wonder whether we'll program in Tamarian one day. Whether we'll be able to build functioning software from a really high-level abstractions, and perhaps not try to micromanage it too much. (And then when something goes wrong, the program will simply say, "Shaka, when the walls fell.")
- Izkata 7y agoYou maybe be interested in the Petrovich language: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/petrovich.html http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/petrovich.html
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