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Comment by roughly

9 hours ago

It's often used as one, though.

No, it’s not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language#Definition

  • It's an interesting move to point me to a rigorously written English language definition of a formal language to make the argument that humans don't co-opt our natural languages as formal languages when the need arises.

    • That’s not what “formal language” means. English being used to describe a formal definition doesn’t make it a formal language.

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