Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?
From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 20:24 |
I didn't take it that way, G. It's very similar to
Turing-completeness. Sure, any task can be programmed in any
programming languages, but choice of language makes all the difference
in how easy/fast/fun the programming process is.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:13 PM, G. van der Vegt <gijsstrider@...> wrote:
> 2009/4/1 RoseRose <faithfulscribe@...>:
>> Sigh. You can say--all ice cream is ice cream. Or you can appreciate
>> flavors. Personally, I default to chocolate (my native tongue?) but can be
>> talked into tasting strawberry banana onion milkshake. Conlanging seems to
>> me to be about discovering new flavors as much as anything else.
>
> I did not mean to imply any such comments, rather that the way it was
> phrased seemed very similar to a lot of descriptions of
> Turing-Completeness.
>
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>