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Yeah, but the nice thing about natural language is, it doesn't matter what you think. People talk because they want to communicate something. You can try to talk your pet language at other people, but you will fail at communicating. So things have a happy way of sorting themselves out.


> I can confirm that "boiling water" definitively is "water that's boiling" and that two words

Which are the two words?

["water that's", "boiling"]

["water", "that's boiling"]

["water that", "s boiling"]

Something else?


I think the two words are ["stop being", "pedantic"]


The point of this discussion is pedantry.




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