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Article #85Re: universal written language - a protocol for machine translation
From: John Woodgate
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:00
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<374c7104.0@news.kabsi.at>, Stefan M�hlbacher <e&s@kabsi.at> inimitably
wrote:
>But the next task is much harder: Now we want to find a symbol for each sort
>of fish in the world: I don't know how many there are,
>but I think more than 10 000 maybe more than 100 000. ---> We will need a
>good resolution for our pictograms.
You might have chosen beetles - maybe 100 times as many distinct
species(!). But the vast majority of both fish and beetles have no names
in most languages, which is why scientific ('Latin') names were
invented. Many of the scientific names of life-forms unnamed in ancient
times are at least partly pictographic in concept, anyway. For example,
the Marsh Warbler is 'Acrocephalus palustris' - 'pointed-head of the
marsh'. There are some much better example, if only I could think of
one. (:-( There's an arachnid called something like 'Squashed-thing,
ugly'.
--
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