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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s actually a technical term in language theory – a term that cannot be produced by the language, but is still considered part of the ‘universe’ (i.e., the set of all terms) is called ‘garbage’ or ‘junk’.

Since I can’t find a source online to verify this claim, this might just have been the case in my courses…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

"Invalid" or "unparseable" are more understandable descriptors in normal language. I don't think I ever heard of garbage/junk being used for that in language theory but it may be domain specific usage.