What 'is' is?

[anon68952647]

@nemomeno

“I’d copulate with that predicate.”

ahh, predicate logic.

[popobawa4u]

I think that maths are the only formal human languages, so referring to the scientific parsing of non-scientific natural language can indeed inspire laugh.

[nimelennar]

@nemomeno

I tried it out. I can’t recall which, but one of the hedgehog stories used E-Prime. I did it since I like constrained writing (like the questions thread), not in a quest for perfection and clarity. I found it a little helpful in the sense that using ‘to be’ can be like the passive voice. Between “It 's a little helpful” and “I found it a little helpful,” the latter helps a little. (I wrote this in E-Prime also, in the hopes that you would find that fact disturbing.) I also wrote something long without using the letter ‘O’ once for fun because of my general weirdness.

Close, but no E-Prime.

[nemomen]

True. I noticed the fudge in the quote (inescapable), but missed the ‘can be like.’ And, hey [quote]using ‘to be’ can be like the passive voice [/quote] is pretty awkward, so maybe E-Primeifying it would help.

[nemomen]

@popobawa4u

I think that maths are the only formal human languages,

There’s things like Loglan/Lojban:

Lojban

You could have many warm and friendly conversations with the robots that use them.

[Snowlark]

I recall reading somewhere (probably from a linguist) that parsing natural languages is tricky because the modality of logic can change and even fork mid-sentence. I have no idea what this means, but it sounds squirrely.