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Conlangery #82: Rikchik

Conlangery Podcast

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The Limits of Embedding in Human Languages

In human languages, there's not really technical limits to things. To some extent embedding can have practical limits. Embedding is unconstrained for the listening is constrained. Infinite death, limited breadth. That's very interesting. It seems like it wouldn't cause any problems with recursion, but it causes problems with like long lists of modifiers or whatever. Right. You can't just keep adding complex because you have to specify the structure. I mean, in practice, I'm sure it's, it's, I don't think it's that much of an issue. In the rick chick that I had to write and just work around it. But this doesn't surprise me

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