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Subject: Re: natural languages as interlinguas fo
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Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 19:03:53 EDT
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***** fortune:net.ai / sri-arpa!ARPA /  2:59 pm  Sep 30, 1984
From:  Rick Briggs 

 There is a natural language which was spoken between
1000 B.C. and 1900 A.D. which was used amongst a scientific community,
and which was ambiguity free(in some senses syntax-free) and which
fascilitated automatic inference. 
        
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	>I have shown this well-developed system to be equivalent to
	>certain semantic net systems, and in some cases the ancient language
	>is even more specific.
        >The language is an obscure branch of Indo-Iranian of which there
	>are no translations, but the originals are extant.


Could you post what this language was, and where you have written up your
findings?   

Thank you.

Henry Polard
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