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Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation

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From: John Woodgate
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 00:00
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<374832BC.907601ED@uaf.edu>, Mike Adams <fsmca1@uaf.edu> inimitably
wrote:
>Why not have the intermediary lingo be one of visual/vocal means and not this
>primative typed medium?
>
>Did you go to the store?
>
>picture of you, picture of store, question mark.
>
>On my end, it would look like "did you go to the store?"
>but to my french friend it would translate into what ever the symbols translate
>into french.. Or what he/she has on her/his computer..

The science-fiction author Greg Bear describes this sort of
communication in the novel 'Eon'.
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From: John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
Date: 1999/05/24
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