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Super Lloyd wrote:

so we disagree to disagree then?

Super Lloyd wrote:

Long expression take more time to parse.

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Edward Sapir wrote, "When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.

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... The verb "Näïkìmlyìïà," meaning "He is eating it for her," is composed of eight parts:

• N-: A marker indicating that the word is the "focus" of that point in the conversation.

• -ä-: A subject agreement marker. It identifies the eater as falling into Class 1 of the sixteen gender classes, "human singular." (Remember that to a linguist "gender" means kind, not sex.) Other genders embrace nouns that pertain to several humans, thin or extended objects, objects that come in pairs or clusters, the pairs or clusters themselves, instruments, animals, body parts, diminutives (small or cute versions of things), abstract qualities, precise locations, and general locales.

• -ï-: Present tense. Other tenses in Bantu can refer to today, earlier today, yesterday, no earlier than yesterday, yesterday or earlier, in the remote past, habitually, ongoing, consecutively, hypothetically, in the future, at an indeter-minate time, not yet, and sometimes.

• -kì-: An object agreement marker, in this case indicating that the thing eaten falls into gender Class 7.

• -m-: A benefactive marker, indicating for whose benefit the action is taking place, in this case a member of gender Class 1.

• -lyì-: The verb, "to eat."

• -ï-: An "applicative" marker, indicating that the verb's cast of players has been augmented by one additional role, in this case the benefactive. (As an analogy, imagine that in English we had to add a suffix to the verb bake when it is used in 1 baked her a cake as opposed to the usual I baked a cake.)

• -à : A final vowel, which can indicate indicative versus subjunctive mood.

If you multiply out the number of possible combinations of the seven prefixes and suffixes, the product is about half a million, and that is the number of possible forms per verb in the language. In effect, Kivunjo and languages like it are building an entire sentence inside a single complex word, the verb.

But I have been a bit unfair to English. English is genuinely crude in its "inflectional" morphology, where one modifies a word to fit the sentence, like marking a noun for the plural with -s or a verb for past tense with -ed. But English holds its own in "derivational" morphology, where one creates a new word out of an old one. For example, the suffix -able, as in learnable, teachable, and huggable...

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it'e E=mc^2, not Energy = Mass * SpeedOfLight^2, to vindicate me...

E=nc^2

Energy = numberOfCatsInTheBox * SpeedOfLight^2

for (int i = 0; i < rooms.Count;  i++)
   {
   rooms[i] = new Room();
   }

OriginalGriff wrote:

C#

Energy = numberOfCatsInTheBox * SpeedOfLight^2

Is immediately wrong.

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How many times did I accidentally use the wrong shortly named variable that you are aware of (not sure mattered but anyway)?

Super Lloyd wrote:

How many times I had to refactor long name into short name to improve my understanding?
Every single time.

for (int room = 0, roomCount = rooms.Count; room < roomCount; room++)
{
rooms[room] = new Room();
}