DSimon comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSimon 04 March 2012 05:55:45AM 2 points [-]

One of my favorite things about many constructed languages is that they get rid of this distinction entirely. You don't have to worry about whether or not "Xify" is a so-called real word for any given value X, you only have to check if it X's type fits the pattern. This happens merely because it's a lot easier, when you're working from scratch anyways, to design the language that way than to have to come up with a big artificial list of -ify words.