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From: John Woodgate
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00

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<3749CD48.D091877C@nospamgvo.it>, Mary Cassidy <cassidy@nospamgvo.it>
inimitably wrote:
>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.

Doesn't Chinese do pretty well at this? And that's with only two
colours. Much more could be done using colours in various ways. For
example, signify the past tense by adding a sepia tint. (;-)
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Subject: Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
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