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Re: Let the listener guess what happened

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 22:24
Gary Shannon scripsit:
> I ran across some notes from several years ago about > an idea for a language where the participants in the > drama are enumerated, but the actual action is left > for the reader/listener to infer. For example: > > John the thrower; Fred the catcher; and the ball. > > "John threw the ball to Fred" does not specify whether > Fred succeeded in catching the ball or not. However > the construction "John the thrower; Fred the catcher; > and the ball." sort of implies that Fred actually > caught the ball.
Tom O'Breton's AllNoun works like this. There are a lot of broken links to it, but http://www.panix.com/~tehom/allnoun/allnoun.htm seems to be current. I had planned to use AllNoun's grammar for my abortive megalang xuxuxi, along with my "anti-harmonic" morphology and WordNet/Classical Yiklamu lexicon. -- "I could dance with you till the cows John Cowan come home. On second thought, I'd http://www.ccil.org/~cowan rather dance with the cows when you http://www.reutershealth.com came home." --Rufus T. Firefly jcowan@reutershealth.com

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