Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 11:17:12PM +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Peter Clark :
[snip]
> >        One does breath a sigh of thanks that it is at least more
> >advanced than the
> >previous sentient machine, which was never programmed to include previous
> >messages in its replies and had the nasty habit of posting random
> >statements
> >that made little to no sense.
>
> Hehe, I remember that one. IIRC it was Chinese technology, and had the bad
> habit to duplicate itself with different, though related, names ;))) .
Definitely Chinese technology. After all, the ancient Chinese (circa 1500
B.C.) invented a device[1] which could see through walls, way before puny
Europeans discovered X-rays. Not to mention they also invented counting
using fingers, which is the foundation of all mathematics way before
Cantor was born; rockets, which is the foundation of modern warfare way
before von Braun defected to the One True Center of Modern Technology
(USA); and many other such devices without which modern life would be
utterly unimaginable.


T

[1] They called it the "window".

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