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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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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