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Re: Mapwords

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 8:17
At 11:55 21/07/2003 -0400, Ted E. Saratoga wrote:
>Shouldn't each mapword either precede or follow the word >providing semantic content? > >This would have precedent (to a degree) in various human languages. >
That's just perfectly ordinary grammatical particles - Japanese works that way. The idea of a mapword is something that maps out the gramatical structure of the whole sentence. As you said in another message, possibly difficult for humans to use especially for long sentences. Pete