What would happen if natural languages behaved like programming languages?
I’m no expert in programming languages, but I know enough to realize that the slightest mistake can mess up hundreds of lines of code. Luckily for us, speakers of natural languages are better at deciphering messages, even those abound in morphosyntactic blunders.
Linguist Gone Foreign 
Heh just consider the mischief. Instead of let us eat it could be let eat us.
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Syntax, facilitating cannibalism since the dawn of time. 🤪
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