We've stacked up a lot of evidence that human language is much too loose and mushy to be formalized in a meaningful way. Lossy might also be a way of putting i

We've stacked up a lot of evidence that human language is much too loose and mushy to be formalized in a meaningful way. Lossy might also be a way of putting it, like a bad compression algorithm. Written language carries far less information than spoken and nonverbal cues.