#I do wonder…is there any formally standardized language that explicitly states what the correct way to do something in these situations
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Do they make extra-sticky headphones for headbangers?
#Idea#Audiovisual equipment#Audio-visual equipment#Audio/visual equipment#AV equipment#A/V equipment#A-V equipment#Apologies for all the tags; i just have to cover all the bases.#What Tumblr really ought to have is a formal standard for tags to deal with shit like this.#At this rate i ain't gonna have any damn tags left!#(And i don't even think that last variation is one that's even used by anyone!)#(I know i've never stumbled across it; maybe it's just not in my dialect.)#Electronics#← Now that one's one where there's no possible confusion on what to do! There's exactly one obvious way to do it!#But that's only because the english language just so happened to evolve that way!#I do wonder…is there any formally standardized language that explicitly states what the correct way to do something in these situations?#(By which i mean situations where there are multiple possible ways to convey the exact same thing.)#I know that in UTF-8 it's mandatory to use the shortest possible sequence to encode a character.#But thinking about it a little more i've just realized that part of the reason that works is that it's even possible to list all ways.#I don't know if it would be possible to design a language like that.#I'd worry about people _thinking_ they're right about the shortest possible way to convey something but then discovering that they aren't.#That would instantly make all previous phrases constructed with the old conclusion ill-formed.#I guess there would have to be some sort of way of some kind to _prove_ that a certain phrase is the shortest possible.#But even then there'd be problems if the language is updated to add new things to the lexicon that retroactively ill-form previous phrases.#God what a fucking nightmare that would be.
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