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I think here, like in a lot of places in our societies, there's a gap in language. Take the group of someone's grandma, john carmack, a 3rd year uni student and like a guy that writes YAML to control his home automation system.

2 words surely aren't enough. There's no way to draw one line through that group and get any real meaning (unless maybe it's above the grandma)

So, like in other parts of society, if we don't make new words, people will start using the words we already have.

I want someone to write a sci-fi book where our need for new language snowballs with increased technology and ends up being the great filter for life since it grows until no groups can understand each other.



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