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Re: Purpose of words

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Words use an alphabet (algebra), so the words themselves (and their pronunciation, which isn't 'available' here), are polymorphic functions of an alphabet.
This is more word salad. It's technically correct, but irrelevant. When I ask "what is the relevance of this to the purpose of words", a simple "nothing" would suffice.
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There's absolutely nothing simple about 'nothing'.
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There's absolutely nothing simple about 'nothing'.
Or as they say in Zen "Nothing matters and every-thing doesn't". Then of course there are black holes and zeo point energy and the discovery and usage of Zero in mathmatics - all great things come from nothing and go back to nothing (birth and death/ entrances and exits: In between is the play (on words) as Shakespeare indicated, over and over again - the subtlety of what is not said (The silence in sentences and how people fear it, filling their mouths with endless garbage like this, rather than shutting up ('The rest is silence...'))
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Sorry, what was that.. ?
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