[Wikipedia-l] An idea. What do you think about this?

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 talthen at wp.pl wrote:

>[...]
>The idea is to create new language, based on most popular languages from all
>over the world. This language would not be a human language, but a language
>to store information.
>[...]
>just enough). The second problem could be chosen by listing all the meanings
>of words. For example for english language we could create file like this:
>word number    word    meaning
>--------------------------------
>1                       mind    intellect
>2                       mind    thoughts
>3                       mind    a head
>4                       mind    to object to

Sorry if I sound harsh, but human languages don't work this way at all.
There are way too many words that you cannot translate in other languages,
different structures, tenses, multiple meanings, etc.

If it was so easy, wouldn't you think that automatic translations would
work much better? What you are proposing is basically automatic
translation between any two languages, with a common step in the middle.
To have this work in an acceptable fashion, your database needs to extend
to cover all possible word combinations: basically, every sentence that
could be uttered by anyone, complete of previous context. And not even a
computer the size of the Universe will cope with that.

Alfio