Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> When you think about it, the weird thing isn't so much that all human
> languages are inherantly vague and ambiguous. The weird thing is that
> this is almost never a problem. In the overwhelming majority of cases,
> everybody still knows *exactly* what you mean, even though strictly
> speaking most sentences could have several possible meanings.

	Communication isn't all verbal.

> This leaves me wondering... how the **** does the human mind actually
> work anyway?!

	You're not the first...

> If you try to program a computer, precise language is much easier to
> handle than ambiguous stuff. Which makes complete sense. But humans,
> apparently, function the opposite way round. Go figure!

	That doesn't compute. I don't have a program called "figure" in my
brain, so I don't know how to run it.

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