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From: Lee Sau Dan ~{
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00

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>>>>> "John" == John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.co.uk> writes:

    >> 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.

    John> Doesn't Chinese do pretty well at this? 

Well?  Could you please state some examples, instead of repeating myths?



    John> And that's with only two colours. 

Sorry, being a native speaker of Cantonese, I still can't get what you
mean  by  something that  Chinese  is  doing  pretty well.   Examples,
please?




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From: sdlee@faith.csis.hku.hk (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Subject: Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
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