Is Python the Esperanto of programming languages?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Christopher A. Craig" wrote:

> It's not redundancy because it doesn't a duplicate copy of information
> found elsewhere in the sentence.  "these men" contains duplicate
> copies of the fact that there is a plural subject, and thus is
> redundant.

But if one of these words is chosen incorrectly (e.g., "this men" or
"these man") then that introduces ambiguity, because you have two clues
that are pointing in opposite directions.

There are cases where there really is no ambiguity, simply because the
word in question is rarely used in a different number ("Good weathers we
have" would be pretty unambiguous since it's unlikely that something
else was meant), but in sentences where the sentence is intended to
convey agreement as part of the information (i.e., how many men you're
talking about is crucial), then incorrect agreement results in
ambiguity.

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