Re: A Two-Dimensional Sentence Structure

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> A two-dimensional sentence structure that allows you to read the words of the
> sentence in any order you like. You can start at any point in the diagram and
> wander in any direction and you will eventually acquire the full meaning of
> the sentence.
>
> <http://fiziwig.com/chatbot/baby_walk.gif>
I'm not sure what the purpose of the pronoun squares is,
except to fully represent the actual sounds of the English
sentence and not just its ideas.  In a native text in this kind of
graph language, you could leave the pronouns out
and just draw arrows direct from each verb to the nouns
filling its argument slots.

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