Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!
From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
Date: | Sunday, April 27, 2003, 0:10 |
Garth Wallace wrote:
> I seem to remember reading about languages created by abandoned
> children. Actually, if you accept that human life does not extend
> infinitely into the past, you have to admit that people who grew up
> without either must have developed them, as they have to have appeared
> for the first time at some point.
Indeed, but if I programmed a computer so that it would have a means of
communicating with other computers in the vicinity, or if I programmed a
computer that was able to add its own enhancements and it came across
communication, the computers would develop a language, too.
--
Tristan <kesuari@...>
There's no such thing as an infinite loop. Eventually, the computer will break.
-- John D. Sullivan