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</head><body><p><br></p><blockquote type="cite">On 22 July 2020 at 17:43 Mike Bennett <mbennett@hypercube.co.uk> wrote: <br><p><br></p><p>So I think if you are going to try and identify language primitives at this kind of level, you are right into Chomsky territory, trying to find a universal set of abstractions from which to specialise for different language groups. <br></p><p>Here you will find the bones of philosophers who have gone before. <br></p></blockquote><p class="default-style"></p><p class="default-style">My impression is that Denny wants a different approach. Something like: standardise on a thousand-page phrasebook that should exist for each of the target languages. Crank up its practical expressive power by attempting broader kinds of encyclopedic content. Leverage previous work in a piecemeal way.</p><p class="default-style">It's going to be complex, as a software pipeline.</p><p class="default-style">Charles</p></body></html>