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What IS a word?
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Still even people new to writing have a good intuition about that but formalizing this intuition is a different story
If you want a clear definition, ask a mathematician:
A word is any written product of group elements and their inverses.
Or a computer scientist:
A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor.
Maybe ironically, neither one would be appropriate as a linguistic definition.
Meanwhile, in Unicode land…
“word” is a four letter word
I think you’ll find that in actual fact “bird” is the word
Recursive
acronymsdefinitionsWord!
Please, it’s w*rd, we want to keep this f*mily friendly
jst blck ll vwls t b* sf
Watch your l*nguage, my dear
that’s a bit wordy
From which Tom Scott video is this ?
As a linguist, I’d just shrug.
Saussure feelings
