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Jedidiah Becker for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online When the philosopher and linguist Jeffry Pelletier first handed in his doctoral dissertation in the 1970s, he was unaware his obscure study of a grammatical oddity would eventually open up a new field of research. Now a professor at the University of Alberta, Pelletier argued in his original thesis that natural languages – unlike computer languages or mathematics – do not always accurately or logically describe the world around...