From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 18:06:04 MDT
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:46:07PM -0400, EvolverTCB@aol.com wrote:
> http://www.nature.com/nsu/030929/030929-6.html
Wrong; http://www.nature.com/nsu/030120/030120-3.html
> A language that conveyed all information unambiguously, say Ferrer
> i Cancho and Sol?, would have a separate word for every thing,
> concept or action it referred to. Such a language would be
> formidably complicated for the speaker: the green of grass, for
> example, would be represented by a totally different word to the
> green of sea, an emerald or an oak leaf.
That is so mind-numbingly asinine I feel no need to read the rest.
-Robin
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