tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 07 05:24:05 1998
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Re: ...beings capable of using language...
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: ...beings capable of using language...
- Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 08:24:33 -0400
>And what about written language?
>And what about programming languages?
>
>How is "being capable" ment then? We do agree on the point of not
>concerning tapeplayers or printers to be "using" language as it was ment
>to be.
>But if we describe language as an exchange of information by a media? Who
>says this media must be lingual, have words or sentences, or even must
>have an akustic carrier?
>
>I.e. my Mac is using his programmed language properly. "I am Performa,
>from the house of Mac!" ;-))
TKD says "...BEINGS capable of..."
beings - living entities
In the message quoted above he used a bifferent meaning of the word [being].
A computer is not a being (a living entity).
It is not strictly "can the thing use language?", the question is "is it a
BEING (a living entity) which is capable of using language?"
DloraH