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This reminds me of an interesting short story entitled "Understand" that I read a few years ago. The premise of the story deals with the question "what would it
by jliechti1 14y ago
This reminds me of an interesting short story entitled "Understand" that I read a few years ago. The premise of the story deals with the question "what would it be like to find meaning and order in everything you saw?". Naturally, language is one facet of this.
"I'm designing a new language. I've reached the limits of conventional languages, and now they frustrate my attempts to progress further. They lack the power to express concepts that I need, and even in their own domain, they're imprecise and unwieldy. They're hardly fit for speech, let alone thought."
Full story here: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm