Re: Natural Language Praised

Am 3 Dec 2005 01:58:12 -0800 schrieb leuwarden@xxxxxxxxx:

> Ron Hardin wrote:
>> Somebody has this as their .sig
>>
>> "Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way optimally to
>> meet the needs for two-way human communication." -- Vincent E. Guiliano,
>> "In Defense of Natural Language," 1972
>
> "evolved" : do you mean to say you have seen progress? where?
>
> many languages have died out, Latin for instance; do you think it was
> of a lesser quality?

What makes you think Latin died out?


Joachim
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.
    ... > 4> Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, ... > 5> Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web ... I was just going to say that would make an awesome .sig. ... I think the only reason Lisp isn't good for everything (depending on ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: Natural Language Praised
    ... Ron Hardin wrote: ... > Somebody has this as their .sig ... > "Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way optimally to ... the problem is that each language is infinite so that a single linguist ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Natural Language Praised
    ... Somebody has this as their .sig ... "Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way optimally to ... "In Defense of Natural Language," 1972 ... Prev by Date: ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Natural Language Praised
    ... Ron Hardin wrote: ... > Somebody has this as their .sig ... > "Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way ... Prev by Date: ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: ``Whom rule
    ... If he intends to use 'whom', it should be 'whom to hate, whom to ... He picks ``who'' to avoid pedanticism. ... natural language wants ``who.'' ... There's no point in trying to confuse Ron Hardin with facts. ...
    (sci.lang)