It's a piece of language but it also belongs to other sorts of semiotic systems as we'll immediately see.

它是一种语言,它属于一个特殊的语义系统,下面我来解释一下。

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Second thing we want to talk about very briefly as we go along is the semantics of the language.

我们要说的第二点,是语言的语义。

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Just like with a natural language, we're going to separate out syntax versus semantics.

就像自然语言一样，我们要去把语法和语义区分开来。

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- Now that's a slight lie-- or actually in these days of political debates, a slight misspeaking, a wonderful word-- -- it is technically correct. It is enough to allow us to write any program, but it's not enough to allow us to easily write any program.

现在还有点说谎的感觉,或者在这些强调政治辩论的日子中，可以说成是有些词不达意-,这是一个绝妙的形容词,在语义上是完全正确的，用这种语言我们可以编写任何程序,但是不能轻松地编写程序。

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