That's way more interesting than whatever crap I was on about! My current research area is in dynamical systems, so I've seen formal languages in the context of discrete-event systems, i.e. finite-state machines, Petri nets, etc. (E.g., the logic inside a traffic light is a discrete-event system.) That, and the LLM textbook I've been reading in my free time (Large Language Models: A Deep Dive by Kamath et al). (I'm gonna read the actual papers eventually, but I want to get a basic overview of the current state of the art before I do.) So I'm definitely not an expert on linguistics or computer science; my background is more engineering + applied math.