Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars
| From: | Gary Shannon <reboot@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 24, 1999, 1:35 |
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Caves <scaves@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars
>Enlighten me... What is an "RPN" language? I thought
>I had heard of most of these..
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>Sally
>
RPN=Reverse Poilish Notation. A computer term describing a method of
computation where all the arguments are mentioned first, and then the
operator is mentioned.
The normal (3 + 2) * 5 in RPN would be 3 2 + 5 *., or even 5 3 2 + *.
Not being a linguist I used this term to describe my experimental grammar.
I guess the proper liguistic description would be "SOV" or "OSV", or some
such.
--Gary.