From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 11:54:48 MDT
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:49:32PM -0700, Mike Williams wrote:
> I'm personally interested in the number of misunderstandings that
> occur due to language--the stock market dives if Greenspan uses
> the wrong adjective, world leaders have teams of people polish
> their speeches to check each nuance of meaning, etc. Does anyone
> know of any studies on designing a true "grammar" for humans, in
> the sense of a fully defined, unambiguous grammar such as those
> used for computer languages?
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-Robin
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