VMs: Time to get hands dirty

[Big Jim <bigjim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

And now for something completely different.

I would like to suggest something.

I have been sitting here day after day for over 2 years reading these posts 
that say "this can not be because..." and  "that can not be because..."  on 
and on and on.

How about actually taking, for instance, John Stojko's already translated 
(since 1978 I think) attempt and proving it wrong (or right).

I have said this before. You people know TOO MUCH. You think TOO logically. 
The brain is divided into two hemispheres for a reason. Sometimes ... just 
sometimes, things do not answer to logic. What if the author's approach was 
outside of the realm of a logical encoding? This is not a "twilight zone" 
approach. This too is also a logical approach. A logical approach that 
incorporates the spatial. An approach that says when the ancients said ABL, 
they were NOT referring to the fruit / apple, but rather the principle that 
created it.

All in favor of getting their hands dirty on John's attempt, say "EYE." hehe...

regards
Jim


At 11:48 AM 2/22/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> > Q2 - Would the frequency of mandatory words such as the verb "to be" and 
> > it's variants be approximately equal from language to language?
>
> No.  You assume that 'to be' is mandatory, and in fact it is 
> not.  Chinese, for example, only uses an equivalent to 'to be' when 
> assigning a concrete definition (e.g. he IS a farmer), but not when 
> assigning an abstract quality (e.g. he very tall, not he IS very tall). 
> Latin, as another example, largely avoids the verb 'to be', instead 
> placing such information in verb endings.
> In fact, just about the only consistent parts of speech shared by all 
> languages are nouns and verbs.  Everything else tends to be highly variable.
>
> Rob
>
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