Re: Universal Translation Language

On Fri, 28 May 1999 20:35:44 -0700, Gary Shannon <reboot@...>
skribis:


>Ambiguity is an essential part of any language.  What would poetry be
>without deliberate ambuguity.  How would you translate "'Twas brillig in=
 the
>slithy toves..." into an unambiguous IAL, since the whole piece is =
_meant_
>to be ambiguous, and would lose all its "meaning" if it were =
disambiguated.

I thought it was needless to say that UTL language is not intended for
translation of literature, artistic texts, etc. I think that kind of
language usage will still need full human translation, and even that
way, there's always a loss from the original, as IMO sentences like
"'Twas brillig in the slithy toves..." cannot be properly translated
to other languages.


Saludos,
Marcos