Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > The natural language has a rigorous grammar plus a lexicon that includes > a number of idioms. Nobody has so far been able to codify a natural > language completely because the rigorous grammar consists of maybe > 10,000 rules.
If nobody has codified the rigorous grammar, how do they know it is rigorous? Given how natural languages are constantly in flux (in both space and time), I don't even know how you could define all the rules of a grammar rigorously. By the time you finished, it would be different. Of course, some rules are more rigorous than others. No English speaker would consider a sentence like Can me cheeseburger has? as grammatical. But how about: I can has cheezburger? If grammar is defined by usage, not formal rule books (which don't exist!), then surely LOLspeak is grammatical. (It's probably closer to an argot than a full language, but even so.) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list