Re: grumbles
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 20, 2000, 9:29 |
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At 13:33 19.4.2000 -0500, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>What is it about finding grammars for *cool* languages online? Just can't
>dig them up. Now I'm looking for Hawai'ian and can't find anything but
>vocabulary words.
'Tis call'd the Dictate of Usefulness, i.e. Financial Exploitability, which
is what most people mean with "useful".
While we're at it: does anyone know an easy-to-come-by description of a
typicallly polysynthetic language, as per the "languages without arguments"
thread.
/BP (once called "The Seeker of Useless Knowledge", but I got so many mails
with daft trivia mistaken for Useless Knowledge that I had to drop that
handle...)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson
mailto:bpj@netg.se
mailto:melroch@my-deja.com
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