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:
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>> 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".
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>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.)
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>David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro
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