Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Language sucks/reply

If only we could simplify it to that sort of thing! I'm actually working on a way of expressing this more clearly, and I might try and work this into it. Even in the simple language game, a requirement is that the image conjured in the mind of Builder A by the word "slab" must be the same as the image conjured in the mind of Builder B. And just like clock synchronisation in relativity, we have to adopt conventions to achieve our synchronisation and then assume they're right. We can't mind-meld to "prove" that it works out.