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Article #127Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
From: Mary Cassidy
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
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Mike Adams ha scritto: > 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.. > > Of course if I asked "Did you go to the store"? > > It would show: > > Symbol for past, picture of my french friends (since it is her/his computer, and > I am the one asking), and a picture of a strore. > It's a nice idea, but even more primitive than the typed medium, I would have thought; you couldn't express any abstract concepts, for example. Even the simple example you give above lends itself to any number of interpretations, such as "Did you go shopping yesterday?", "I wonder why the corner shop closed down?", "Was your takeover bid for the grocery store successful?", or "How come you always forget to buy toothpaste"? Mary (remove "nospam" to reply)
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