- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:06:40 -0400
- To: "Rick JELLIFFE" <ricko@geotempo.com>, <xml-uri@w3.org>
Rick JELLIFFE wrote: > > Has anyone else been reminded through all this of Swift's School of > Languages? > > The philosophers of this School declared that every word could be made > into a noun, and that every noun had a physical object that could > represent it, and therefore that one could get a universal language by > using the objects directly. If you had enough objects with you, you > could disuss any subject: instead of needing the word "cat" you could > grab a cat out of your bag! > > I am not sure whether Tim Bray's option #2 (retrieve the resource) is > not an idea from that School. Instead of needing a very big bag, we have > http :-) > One of the fatal problems with such approaches is that in order to represent "zero" you'd come up empty handed :-)) Jonathan Borden
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