From thinkit8@lycos.com Sat Jul 14 16:42:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 14 Jul 2001 23:42:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 40573 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2001 23:42:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Jul 2001 23:42:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ei.egroups.com) (10.1.2.114) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Jul 2001 23:42:18 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.122] by ei.egroups.com with NNFMP; 14 Jul 2001 23:42:18 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 23:42:16 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: a machine-code natural language? Message-ID: <9iqlco+6pta@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 719 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com i originally found out about lojban when lojbab replied to a post of mine to sci.lang about a binary-coded natural language. basically, i was thinking of encoding a natural language much the way computers encode program code. that is, there are certain bit fields for determining the operation, and for supplying the data to be operated on. do you think it would be feasible to encode what english (and lojban) attempts to express in a manner similar to machine code? lojban is a very good bridge to attempt this--with its parsable text and unambiguous nature. but it is meant to be a spoken language, and as such a vastly different approach would have to be taken. has there been any attempts at this?