Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

Much of what has been discussed in this thread is reminiscent of what
I'm doing with Rikchik ("http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmm/rikchik/intro.html").
Rikchik words include a collector that says how many previous words
are popped off the stack, and each word includes a relation that specifies
how it relates to the word that collects it.  For instance, if you
want to say "The human gave the rock to the rikchik", you would say

Human-Agent-R-0 Rock-Patient-T-0 Rikchik-Destination-R-0 Give-End-V-3

This looks much better when written out in Rikchik, naturally.
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Denis M Moskowitz            Happy-Result-N-0 God-Quality-N-1 Human-End-R-1
dmm@suberic.net              Human-Source-R-0P Rikchik-Agent-N-0 Talk-End-I-2
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