It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which have to do with the way in which a given sign might be chosen to go into a speech sentence.

这也许值得尝试,为了理解语言和符号的关系，这一切都和符号怎样,被选择为一段话语的构成部分有关系。

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Well, if I had the option, I would really like to go to grad school for linguistics.

如果可以选择的话，我真的很想去读语言学的研究生。

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So while. And thankfully the jargon that the authors of this language chose early on conjures up the right ideas in your mind while something is true.

即while语句，幸好该语言的创始人,选择的术语都很通俗易懂,让人只通过字面意思就能联想到其真正含义。

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