>I went to a New York restaurant in Chinatown to order some roast
pork, and I wanted it "lean" (pronounced "sou" as in "south").
But the waiter laughed when it came out with a SLIGHT tinge of
"ts" instead of "s", and it would have meant "stinky" instead of
"lean".<

I like that definition of a non-redundant language. You need to go into
discussions of what you just said actually means. 

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