They create a language with rich syntax and morphology and phonology, terms that we'll understand in a few minutes.

他们用丰富的语法,语态和语音,创造出一种语言,我们马上会来讲这些术语的

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I know that many, many students, language students hate grammar, but

我知道很多很多学生，学习语言，讨厌语法，但是，

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See, to be honest even though it might feel like a whole of new stuff at once, it's a pretty small language and so we've almost seen all of the syntactic features thus far so now we'll be able to start focusing more on concepts.

瞧，即使它感觉好像一个新的东西,它是一种相当小的语言,我们迄今看到的几乎所有的语法特征,现在我们将把重点放在概念上。

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Syntax basically says, what are the legal expressions in this language?

语法也就是说，这个语言的合理表示是什么？

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It's not a full-blown language like american sign-language or langue des signes quebecoise but it's a language nonetheless, with words and syntax and phonology.

这种语言并不像美国手语,或加拿大魁北克手语那样成熟,尽管如此,这种语言依然拥有词,语法和语音

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There are all kinds of little abbreviations they make, ; and it suggests that language has to be wrenched out of its conventions; syntax can be set aside; language needs to move at the speed of experience and at the speed of ecstasy.

他们创造了各种缩写，好像语言必须得被扭曲得偏离原样;,语法可以被搁置一边，语言需要以体验和,忘形的速度移动。

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And most linguists would argue "Yes," that languages are highly constrained in how they do things.

大多数语言学家们都会回答"是的",语言在很大程度上依赖于语法规则的使用

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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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Those are examples from syntax, but language has many structures.

这些例子都是从语法上来说的,但语言却是有很多结构的

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So, the final step in the story is syntax.

所以语言的最后一个成分便是语法了

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It's just some bogus language we made up that's kind of English-like, kind of look C-like now that you've seen this syntax, but it was just an arbitrary language.

并不是真正的编程语言,好比某种“伪英语“，或“类C语言“,你现在在语法中看到的就是所谓的伪代码，非常随意。

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You can actually declare in C synonyms using special syntax that says, you know what, even though yes at the end of the day I'm implementing false as a 0 and true as a 1, I can abstract away from that detail and use words that are more intuitive to me like true and false.

实际上，你可以用C语言中的特定的语法,你们懂得，虽然到最后,我把0当成假，1当成真来看，我们也可以从这些细节中抽象出来,使用像“真““假“这样更直观的词。

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Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

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