Re: Internationalizing Linux

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Dec 1998 05:08:13 GMT

Followup to: <7524cu$1nn$1@work2.noris.de>
By author: smurf@noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > - English has a rather simple grammar (spelling is quite another matter :-)
>
> English is rather difficult to parse without hard AI, its free-form grammar
> lends itself to some rather creative uses. Granted that those are more
> common in SF novels (I particularly like Douglas Adams when it comes to
> creative usage of English ;-) than in UN documents...
>

Actually, the #1 problem with natural languages is that because
they're generated with the assumption that the parser/semantic
analyzer is AI-complete, people don't say what they mean.

-hpa

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