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Re: Unambiguous languages (was: EU allumettes)

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Thursday, May 6, 2004, 8:44
* And Rosta said on 2004-05-06 05:02:33 +0200
> Ray: > > On Tuesday, May 4, 2004, at 12:43 PM, John Cowan wrote: > > > The price of infinite precision is infinite verbosity.
> > But if And is interested in highly disambiguated communication, > > then Classical Yiklamu's claims should surely be examined: > > > > "Classical Yiklamu is an artificially constructed language. Its purpose is > > to enable interested users to explore the possibilities of highly > > disambiguated verbal communication." > > I may have mixed CY up with another conlang in my memory, but my > recollection is that it adopts Word Net as the inventory of its > word senses. By so doing, it gets rid of ambiguity arising from > polysemy.
It gets rid of *English* polysemy. WordNet is not a 100% language- neutral ontology after all, as a look at EuroWordNet quickly proves. Play with the english-spanish-catalan-basque wordnet at: http://sisx03.si.ehu.es/tresnak/wwni/index.htm Here's the result for "hartu" in the Basque Wordnet with multilingual on. Compare number of synonyms. http://sisx03.si.ehu.es/cgi-bin/wwni/adierak.pl?hitza=hartu&wn=ba&multi=on t.

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