From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 22:18:11 MST
Harvey writes:
> 1 think 2 are taking 3 comments out of context. No 5 would take 6 so far.
hal@finney.org wrote,
>
> 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.
Di doubt da!
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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