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layer8 • today at 6:53 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Human language isn’t a formal language, so this is a category error.

In the present context, an example is that the common reading of a Kanji word isn’t always well-defined, and neither is the decomposition of a sequence of Kanji characters into words.


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roughly • today at 6:55 PM

It's often used as one, though.

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