On 2013-04-20 2:38 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
I am thinking that the fact that I am not a linguist and that I am implicitly seeking the precision of mathematics and seeking provenance of a translation is perhaps the explanation of why I am thinking that localizable sentences is the way forward. There seems to a fundamental mismatch deep in human culture of the way that mathematics works precisely yet that translation often conveys an impression of meaning that is not congruently exact. Perhaps that is a factor in all of this.
Natural language lacks the logic and precision of mathematics, and is only unpredictably unambiguous. That's why lojban was invented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban -- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark Biological Sciences +1 909 869 4140 Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona CA 91768
