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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Meanwhile, in Unicode land…

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe ironically, neither one would be appropriate as a linguistic definition.

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  • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or, in either field (formal language theory bridges both) it can mean any string of symbols, letters, or tokens.

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    i wonder what the inverse of the letters in the english alphabet are. since it has 26 letters, 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.

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• four@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “word” is a four letter word

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  • lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Please, it’s w*rd, we want to keep this f*mily friendly

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      jst blck ll vwls t b* sf

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  • dessimbelackis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you’ll find that in actual fact “bird” is the word

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    • prex@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s what I heard.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Birds are not real, though, are they?

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    • Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And it begins…probably be 2 days until I get the song out of my head

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  • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Word!

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  • railwhale@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Recursive acronyms definitions

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that’s a bit wordy

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• archonet@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  if you accept the definition that a word is some letters, surrounded by a gap…

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  • slice@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    From which Tom Scott video is this ?

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    • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      this one

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• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  xnopyt

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• lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still even people new to writing have a good intuition about that but formalizing this intuition is a different story

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• deaf_fish@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And I love them for it. Seriously comfortable society is built on and by nerds.

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  • slice@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I love it too. It was quite an interesting deep dive into that topic.

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• wandermind@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As a linguist, I’d just shrug.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “everyone knows what a word is, that is the definion”

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the cries of alien archaeologists from the far future echo in the distance

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• chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Saussure feelings

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What IS a word?

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    vsauce music starts playing

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “what” is a word, correct.

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• Hupf@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What is Truth and what is God?

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