| ▲ | roughly 4 hours ago |
| It's often used as one, though. |
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| ▲ | layer8 4 hours ago | parent [-] |
| No, it’s not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language#Definition |
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| ▲ | roughly 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's an interesting move to point me to a rigorously written English language definition of a formal language to make the argument that humans don't co-opt our natural languages as formal languages when the need arises. | | |
| ▲ | layer8 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s not what “formal language” means. English being used to describe a formal definition doesn’t make it a formal language. | | |
| ▲ | roughly 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I didn’t say it was a formal language, I said humans co-opt it as one. |
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