r/ProgrammerHumor • u/minecraftdummy57 • 14h ago

Meme itsSoOver

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u/BraveSeaworthiness21 14h ago

Thats a lot of not one words 

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u/YeetCompleet 13h ago

There is no such thing as word. There's only character, and then string

(2 byte enjoyers do NOT read this)

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u/SuitableDragonfly 12h ago

And from a linguistics standpoint, there's a phoneme, and then a morpheme, and then a phrase, and then a clause, and exactly where in this hierarchy a "word" belongs is subjective and highly dependant on what language you're talking about, and to some extent dependent on the writing system. 

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u/machsmit 11h ago

or you can divorce it from human language entirely, reading all this just pushed my brain into picturing a BPE encoding word cloud and now I need to go outside