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Article #136Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
From: John Woodgate
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
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<7fhfp1l58t.fsf@faith.csis.hku.hk>, Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}
<sdlee@faith.csis.hku.hk> inimitably wrote:
>The Chinese way of asking "Did you go to the store?" is: "Are you in
>the state of 'having gone to the store'?"
>
>That's not just a picture of "you" and "store" and an arrow meaning
>"go". Chinese plays a lot with states, or more technically, "temporal
>aspect". Moreover, the verb "go" is much more precise in meaning than
>just an "arrow". An "arrow" can mean "go", "possess", "attack",
>"like", "hate", "inside", "is a kind of", ...
I do appreciate that. I did use the word simplistic', after all. What I
am saying is that a pictogrammatical language, not wholly dissimilar to
an ideogrammatical language, is possible, and has the potential of being
more precise that a word-based language.
--
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