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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.