Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!brat From: brat@gitpyr.UUCP (Steven Goldberg) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: natural language deficiencies? Message-ID: <321@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 09:36:42 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.321 Posted: Wed Nov 7 09:36:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 06:43:03 EST References: <215@turing.UUCP> <208@pyuxt.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Lines: 7 > For goodness sake! A language is only deficient if it is impossible to > express something in it. (It may be cumbersome, however.) By that > standard, English is clearly not deficient. > marcus hand (pyuxt!marcus) Amen, Marcus.. There's a difference between "deficiency" and "efficiency." Steven