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"Natural language designer" is a contradiction; one of the core defining properties of natural languages (like English) is that they are not designed. You swit
by unwind 13y ago
"Natural language designer" is a contradiction; one of the core defining properties of natural languages (like English) is that they are not designed.
You switched to "reformer" in your closing sentence, perhaps that was what you originally meant, too?
Of course, such a reform is not exactly easy to implement.
- bane 13y agoI mean natural language as "language for humans to use to communicate with each other" as opposed to programming language as "language for humans to use to communicate with computers". It's the same meaning as is used in NLP. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic and I guess even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language This is different than the meaning of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language I guess if you want to get pedantic a better term might be "Orthographic design".