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That really interesting. To be fair, modern "English" is a nebulous smorgasbord of words from a lot of different languages. I'm sure we could afford to drop a
by CoastalCoder 1mo ago
That really interesting.
To be fair, modern "English" is a nebulous smorgasbord of words from a lot of different languages. I'm sure we could afford to drop a lot of the words from clusters of synonyms.
- leapingdog 1mo agoI recall a team working on machine translation starting by translating English into a simpler form before translating that into the target languages. This was a couple of decades ago. Perhaps not a new idea even then.
- RetroTechie 1mo agoYou can take those 'useless', redundant synonyms from my cold, dead brain cells!
- SoftTalker 27d ago> we could afford to drop a lot of the words from clusters of synonyms Not really, because every synonym imparts a slightly different meaning, usually perceptable only to native speakers. That's why they persist, because they are useful even if not strictly necessary.