From thinkit8@lycos.com Mon Dec 03 17:29:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 4 Dec 2001 01:29:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 31353 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2001 01:29:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Dec 2001 01:29:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n18.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.68) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2001 01:29:59 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.111] by n18.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Dec 2001 01:30:06 -0000 Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 01:29:55 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: thoughts on numerical language Message-ID: <9uh8uj+5vag@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <180.1cd90d.293d7d82@aol.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1334 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 12.224.27.33 From: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Yahoo-Profile: thinkit41 --- In lojban@y..., pycyn@a... wrote: > In a message dated 12/3/2001 5:48:15 PM Central Standard Time, > thinkit8@l... writes: > > > > anyway, i was saying you can just represent it as "A gives B", with > > side tag "with recipient". Or "A gives to B", with side > > tag "involving object". English is pretty much binary, with > > prepositional side tags. It just turns out the 5 tags in lojban > > makes things convenient and quick. > > > > OK. I now get one idea of what "numerical language" means. From earlier > stuff I get the idea that part of it is to have all vocabulary be numbers (? > at least I think that is what I get). What else is involved? Can the > fundamentals of the scheme be laid out in some clear but reelatively compact > way? Would you do that (one remembers that you still haven't explained what > is wrong with Lojban by you)? This has little to do with my issues with lojban. It's a totally different approach. I intend to follow this through and put together a basic explanation of the goals and layout of the system. The best summary I can give was one that was suggested on this list, as I remember. In computers, you compile a source code to machine language. I'm thinking of compiling a normal languague to "machine code". Thus I am defining this machine code.