From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 10 19: 1: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 2D0BA37B401; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:01:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:01:01 -0600 From: Juli Mallett To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Mark Murray , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: languages Message-ID: <20030210210101.A30496@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030209181722.GA19704@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <200302091826.h19IQBaX035066@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200302091820.h19IKpaX034953@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20030209184658.GA19887@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030209184658.GA19887@papagena.rockefeller.edu>; from rsidd@online.fr on Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:46:58PM -0500 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * De: Rahul Siddharthan [ Data: 2003-02-09 ] [ Subjecte: Re: languages ] > Mark Murray wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > > All right, show me where in the XML 1.0 specification the > > > interpretation of the following snippet of XML described: > > Presumably in some DTD somewhere? That's possible with XML (hence > "extensible") > > > Where in a dictionary is the meaning of Jabberwocky explained? > > > > 'Twas brillig. and the slithy toves did gimble on the gyre.... > > > > Language is a structure, not necessarily a meaning. > > Well, it's explained later in "Through the looking glass", and some > of it even got into the dictionary later ("chortle", "galumph"). > > The newspeak words in Burgess's "A clockwork orange" aren't in fact > explained anywhere -- the reader understands them by context. But > they still have a meaning. Ditto with some of Edward Lear's nonsense. Actually, the tounge of the nadsats is explained well as an appendix to some editions. -- Juli Mallett AIM: BSDFlata -- IRC: juli on EFnet OpenDarwin, Mono, FreeBSD Developer ircd-hybrid Developer, EFnet addict FreeBSD on MIPS-Anything on FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message