12 May 2022 - overgrown language

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The dictionary tells you how many words there are. The thesaurus tells you how many ideas there are. Divide the dictionary by the thesaurus, and you get a measure of how overgrown language is. Oh, but it's worse. Most words have multiple senses. Imagine the Utopia if we could free that wasted intellectual power to solve problems!

clue:

Nah. The... exuberant nature of language is probably due to the limitations of what brains can do efficiently. Neurons are fancy but slow.

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