Re: Universal Translation Language
| From: | Joshua Shinavier <ajshinav@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 29, 1999, 9:41 |
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> >Ambiguity is an essential part of any language. What would poetry be
> >without deliberate ambuguity.
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> Exactly!
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> >How would you translate "'Twas brillig in the
> >slithy toves..." into an unambiguous IAL, since the whole piece is _mean=
t_
> >to be ambiguous, and would lose all its "meaning" if it were disambiguat=
ed.
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> Yep - and when Marcos produces his UTL, that's the first thing I'll
> translate into it :-)
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> BTW - has anyone translatedthe Jabberwocky into lojban or Classical Yikla=
mu?
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> Ray.
That's a trivial kind of ambiguity, though, and easily solved (that is, if =
you
want to solve it!): these words are simply not defined. The ambiguity whic=
h
loglangs can't tolerate is syntactic ambiguity, and words with multiple
meanings.
Josh
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