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Re: OT: Non-human languages (was OT: Dolphin intelligence (...))

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Thursday, July 3, 2003, 18:53
>One of the more successful attempts towards a non-human grammar >is Jeffrey Henning's Fith, a sketch of which can be found at >http://www.langmaker.com/fith.htm >which has a grammar based on a LIFO stack. But even that is probably >more "human-like" than what actual extraterrestrial intelligences >might use.
Yes, I found this years ago by accident when investigating the somewhat archeic programming language FORTH, which seems in part to have been the spark for Fith. Hmm. This does at least offer a different way of processing data - LIFO - last-in/first-out. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail