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It feels like natural languages would evolve shortcuts based on the cultural context in which they arise.

I would think that a language based on predicate logic would be less efficient at communicating oft-expressed things, like a Huffman code dictionary where all the entries are weighted equally.




Moreover, you'd expect languages based on predicate language to be identical in their written and spoken forms.




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