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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