From: hal@finney.org
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 21:26:00 MST
Harvey writes:
> 1 think 2 are taking 3 comments out of context. No 5 would take 6 so far.
This reminds me of Loglan's version of pronouns, when I was learning it 20
years ago. They used da, de, di, do, and du, which were kind of like 1,
2, 3, 4, 5. Da was the most recently named noun, de was the 2nd most
recently named, and so on. So if you had "The AI told John that his
sister had left her wallet at the store," the store would be da, the
wallet de, the sister di, John do and the AI du. So you could follow
it with "Du also said do should go to da and get de." You would soon
learn to subconsciously associate the right pronoun with the right noun,
the designers hoped.
Hal
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