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What is Truth and what is God?
What IS a word?
“what” is a word, correct.
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If you want a clear definition, ask a mathematician:
A word is any written product of group elements and their inverses.
Or a computer scientist:
A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor.
i wonder what the inverse of the letters in the english alphabet are. since it has a non-prime number of letters (26 to be exact), we know that some letters won’t have inverses. i wonder which letters don’t have inverses. i guess it would be pretty easy to find out if you use the standard alphabet ordering and then port the alphabet over to ℤ/26ℤ, but that’s not a particularly satisfying answer.
Maybe ironically, neither one would be appropriate as a linguistic definition.
Meanwhile, in Unicode land…
“word” is a four letter word
I think you’ll find that in actual fact “bird” is the word
That’s what I heard.
And it begins…probably be 2 days until I get the song out of my head
My body is ready!
Please, it’s w*rd, we want to keep this f*mily friendly
jst blck ll vwls t b* sf
Watch your l*nguage, my dear
Word!
Recursive
acronymsdefinitionsthat’s a bit wordy
Still even people new to writing have a good intuition about that but formalizing this intuition is a different story
From which Tom Scott video is this ?
Thanks
As a linguist, I’d just shrug.
“everyone knows what a word is, that is the definion”
Saussure feelings
