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Leslie Goldsmith, from I.P. Sharp to KX

The Array Cast

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Iversonian Languages - Part Two

"I've been thinking, you know, if we had just evolved to not have alphabets, and we just imagine like a Chinese language system where you've got like 40,000 words," he says. "We could do it in probably like 6,000. And every word was just a number." He adds: "It's a good thing the set of integers isn't infinite"

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