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I have a whole Twitter thread on that, here:

https://twitter.com/no_identd/status/1220913617408864257

Prompted by my discovery of this book:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-10756-7 "A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers: Sentence Algebra & Document Algorithms", by Brad Henderson

Edit:

Altmetrics just revealed to me that apparently a cheesy corporate marketing video for it exists:

https://youtu.be/X9vQoadsQ1I

Amazing.

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Haven't read it, but my reaction to the 2 minute video is "excrement" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHORRHXtyI

Well, yes, but tell that to the proof assistants, automated theorem provers, academic snowclone^W^H phrasal template banks, and highly bullet pointed lists of Corporate ISO9000 series GRC Policy & Procedure Work Instruction Drafting Style Guide Manual Template Files as well as the resulting legislative outputs( via lobbying, lol). Cf. my points in the Twitter thread, on proforms, thematic relations, and one anaphora¹.

There exist only so many ways in which to formally answer arbitrary instances of the 7 fundamental questions (yes, 7, not 5—or six, like IBM's Zachman framework would have one believe.).

¹ the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza place and asks: Can you make me one with everything?

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