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Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

From:Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...>
Date:Saturday, April 26, 2003, 22:47
Are you going to establish a bijection between the possible sentences
and the natural numbers for us then? :p No, I can think of a way of
doing it.

>On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 01:25:56PM -0700, william drewery wrote: > > >> Anyway, here's my two cents: I'm not sure >>insectoid use of pjeremones constitutes any language, >>because there is no information content. Nothing is >>expressed. The insect behavior is simply modified, but >>there is no "thought". >> >> > >So if there were humans sending out the insect pheremones to each other, >it would be language? I think part of my definition of language would >have to mention that the number of sentences - of communicatable ideas - >is not finite. (It is, however, countable.) > >-- >David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro >Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me! > > >