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>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan M�hlbacher <e&s@kabsi.at> writes:


    Stefan> But how is the ratio of words that have equivalents in
    Stefan> another language to the words that have no equivalent?

    Stefan> Is it 10000 : 1, 1000 : 1 or 100 : 1 ?

I think it is very high.  Seldom do two languages have words that mean
EXACTLY the same thing, covering EXACTLY the same range of ideas.

You may not be able to  notice this when you're only comparing English
to another Western language.  Try  to compare English with an Oriental
language.  The infeasibility reveals immediately.




    Stefan> I don't know, but I am shure about the following: The
    Stefan> knowledge that can be commonly expressed is huge.

So, even our  most powerful computers today couldn't  handle such huge
volumn of knowledge.  Neither  have anyone invented the techonology to
manage such knowledge,  so that computers can be  programmed to handle
it EFFICIENTLY.




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