Re: Linguistic knowledge and conlanging (was Explaining linguistic...)

Jörg Rhiemeier said:
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>> > Or Old Albic would probably not be a good machine translation
>> > interlingua, for example.
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>> No, you have to use Aymara for that.
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> Does this mean that Rick Morneau just wasted a lot of time and effort?
On the contrary, Rick's approach has as good a chance of success for MT
applications as any other I've seen. Even if it didn't, his work would
still stand as a useful contribution to natlang semantics -- not a waste
of time or effort by any stretch of the imagination.

I was being facetious about Aymara: somebody did actually propose its use
as an MT interlingua. *shrug*


-- Mark