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From: Lee Sau Dan ~{
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00

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>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan MUEHLBACHER <SMuehlba@frequentis.com> writes:


    Stefan> 1.) State of being hungry: So we need a symbol for a
    Stefan> relation that can be used together with one operand: Lets
    Stefan> call it SYMBOL_FOR_BEING_HUNGRY

    Stefan> 2.) The other symbol is needed for the person that is in
    Stefan> that state: Lets call it SYMBOL_FOR_PERSON.

    Stefan> And the relation may be represented like:
    Stefan> SYMBOL_FOR_BEING_HUNGRY (SYMBOL_FOR_PERSON).

    Stefan> The two sentences "I am hungry" or "I have hunger" are
    Stefan> just two ways to translate the same relation into english.

You're  applying the  model of  predicate  logic here.   You may  find
Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/) interesting.


In lojban,

	mi = I
	xagji = hungry/need food

mi xagji = I'm hungry = J'ai faim = Ich habe hunger = <wo3> <e4>



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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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