Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | David Starner <dvdeug@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 26, 2003, 20:55 |
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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.)
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David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro
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