[Worldforge-all-lists] Re: [WF-General] Translation and stuff, ideas wanted

[David T. <no...@no...>]

"Dr.Altaica" wrote:
>=20
> Hans H=E4ggstr=F6m wrote:
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> >
> > Another alternative would be Lojban ( http://www.lojban.org/ ).
> > It is a mature and well thought out constructed language, that is des=
igned to
> > have an unambiguous grammar, among other things.
> > It would make an excellent intermediate language when translating som=
ething
> > between
> > two or more other languages.
> >
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> Yifflang is more than just unambiguous grammer it's unambiguous words. =
A good
> example for amgiguous word is the (american?) english word "play" even =
if you
> figer out if it's a noun, verb intransitive, verb transitive thars stil=
l
> 11(n.)-16(v.i.) posible meanings.


But ambiguity is half the fun!  If I say I'm going away for a weekend to
"play" with a friend, and I wink when I say it, well, you know what I'm
really saying.  If language were unambiguous, I would have to say "I'm
going away for a weekend of wild sex!"  And that would be gauche.=20
Besides, people will jtus project ambiguity which is there in their
native language.

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