Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
From: | Charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 21:35 |
Ed Heil wrote:
[cut most, good stuff]
> But it would still have enough semantic structure to be usable -- it
> would be assumed to be a discrete thing (a count noun) and to be a
> kind of "idea" -- and that would be enough to allow it to be usefully
> combined with the other elements of a sentence.
>
> The maintained connection with "green" would be useful because if the
> rest of the sentence provided enough information that you could figure
> out what "green" must mean in this context, you can go back and encode
> that as a possible meaning of "green."
>
> Does this at all make sense? :)
Sure, nonsense is just like a politician's speech.