Does Cubing count as a language?

riffz said:
"A language is a system of symbols for encoding and decoding information."

-Wikipedia
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This.

It is a ''language'', sort of. When I read the scrambles, I no longer need to ''translate it''. Well, if cubing has its language, we must say music too. Reading a music chart is the same kind of language related to cubing.

Talking about this, someone should REALLY make a thread called ''Cubing Vocabulary'' or something because there are MANY MANY abreviations that are difficult to understand even when you are an advanced cubers. Cube types, abreviations like : PLL, OLL, CFOP, AUF, F2L, Roux and ZZ solving steps, PB.

Maybe some were not created for cubing and already existed in English, but for other people from non-english country/regions can find them hard to get.
 
I don't think we're talking about formal languages here. Considering it's defined as basically "any finite or infinite set of words" it's definitely not what we want. The OP is talking about languages in the sense of spoken languages (a communication system). In linguistics, the properties of language (see wikipedia), along with their relevance to cubing notation, include:
- arbitrary symbols and meanings (arguable)
- words refer to things or concepts (yes)
- any concept can be talked about in the language (nope)
- there is a process by which the society assigns meaning; individuals can't (yes)

I would say that cubing notation does not fall under language in the informal or linguistic sense, but rather it is a notation in the same sense as music notation, chemical formulae, Z notation, etc. It is a shorthand used for writing something from a specific and restrictive set of concepts.
 
heythereimbenihazfasttimezthisishowmylangwageworkzandwhatnotdidyouknowcubingisalangwageimtiredzzzzzzzzzzzzzziwantcubefasternessihaveayellowphone.

thats my alphabet for the language im working on. Does that count?
 
Owen said:
It's a language, but not one for talking, but for cubing. Just like HTML is a language for web design.


There are different dialects too.

3x3: R, D, B, L, F, U, M, E, S, x, y, z, R', D', B', L', U', F', , M', E', S', x', y', z', R2, D2, B2, L2, U2, F2, M2, E2, S2, x2, y2, z2, r, l, u, d, f, b, r', l', u', d', f', b'.

Pyraminx: R, L, U, F, R', L', U', F', r, l, u, f, r', l', u', f'...

Basically, there are normal moves, inverted moves, small moves, half-turns, slice moves, and cube rotations. You can mix and match too. (e.i. 180 slice moves).

More later, but I have too go.

I <3 notation.
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That's what you call terminology.
 
Extra credit for the people that can explain the following.

CF CR CU

..F ..B ..L ..R ..U ..D
 
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