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I get it now. What’s funny is your vulgar interpretation of “language”. Which is another pet-peeve of his: people who use commonsensical, intuitive words like
by avgcorrection 4y ago
I get it now. What’s funny is your vulgar interpretation of “language”.
Which is another pet-peeve of his: people who use commonsensical, intuitive words like “language” and “person” to draw unfounded scientific and philosophical paralells between things which can be compared with metaphors, like human languages and… DNA I guess.
- dekhn 4y agoYou think DNA isn't a language? That seems... restrictive. To me, the term language was genericized from "how people talk to each other" to "sequences of tokens which convey information in semi-standardized forms between information-processing entities". DNA uses the metaphors of language- the central dogma of biology includes "transcription" (copying of DNA to RNA) and "translation" (converting a sequence of RNA to protein). Personally I think those terms stretch the metaphor a bit.
- CRConrad 4y agoAnother thing that's funny is your usage of “vulgar”.
- avgcorrection 4y agoOkay.