Semanticity
Semanticity is one of Charles Hockett's 16 design features of language. Semanticity refers to the use of arbitrary or nonarbitrary signals to transmit meaningful messages.[1]
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gollark: If you just blindly copy-paste stuff into the terminal to do things, you will have Problems™.
gollark: I mean, stuff like "an actually good terminal which you use for many operations" is new to many users.
gollark: To actually use it you do need to know more than how to install it, though.
gollark: Much more convenient than multiplying by powers of 10.
gollark: I use imperial because I just *love* memorizing tables of incomprehensible unit conversions!
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