Darren New wrote:
>>> Even tho everyone participating already knows what it means? Even when 
> 
>> (Consider a recording of the debate being discovered by an alien 
>> culture 50,000 years in the future who have no other reference for the 
>> language...)
> 
> I don't follow. How would aliens 50,000 years in the future be 
> participating and already know what it means?

No, no...the other way around.  The aliens 50,000 years in the future 
*wouldn't* be participating, and wouldn't necessarily already know what 
the words that were being used mean.  Hence the explicitly defining 
everything...for their convenience.  XD

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Tim Cook
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