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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In Scratch, the block you may have used for this idea literally says "or" for or; in C, two vertical bars.

在Scratch中，这个你用的程序块,照字面地想法来说“or“表示或者;,在C语言中，是两个竖线。

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For a language like English, that creature there is referred to with the morpheme "Dog."

对于像英语这样的语言,那种生物被表示为语素"狗"

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Let's choose Latin, the language of scholarship, and so iron became Fe for ferrum and lead became Pb for plumbum and gold is Au for aurum and so on.

那就选拉丁文吧，用于学术的语言，所以，iron就变成了Fe，表示铁元素,铅变成了，Pb，表示铅元素,金变成了Au，表示金元素，等等。

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So it turns out in C, you can absolutely represent the idea of a condition, a branch, a fork in the road.

结果在C语言中，你们完全可以表示出环境的概念,一个分支，一个三岔路口。

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If language can refer to just about everything from English to traffic signals, then we're not going to be able to find interesting generalizations or do good science about it.

如果语言能够表示一切,从英语到交通信号,那我们就无法得出各种有趣的概论,或是无法对语言进行科学的研究

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In C and most programming languages, if you need greater than or equal to, use greater than and then right next to it with no space put equal to, and that conjures up the same idea.

在C和大部分的编程语言中，如果你需要表示大于等于,在“>“号后边加上一个“=“,中间不要空格，那使我们联想到同样的想法。

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counter++ So this is like counter ++.

用C语言表示就是。

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But one of the teaching fellas also passed long to us recently, a little real world example of what happens when you're not mindful of various data types and you're not mindful of the imprecision that's inherent in representing data in a computer, at least using a language like C and low level primitives like floats and even doubles.

最近有个助教告诉我们，一个现实世界中的例子,当你不注意各种各样的数据类型,也不注意在计算机中表示数据时,其内在的不精确性，至少在用像C语言,和float甚至double型数据时，那将会发生什么？

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