Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:01:01 -0600 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: languages Message-ID: <20030210210101.A30496@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030209184658.GA19887@papagena.rockefeller.edu>; from rsidd@online.fr on Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:46:58PM -0500 References: <20030209181722.GA19704@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <200302091826.h19IQBaX035066@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200302091820.h19IKpaX034953@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20030209184658.GA19887@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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* De: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> [ 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.
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