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Re: Universal Network Language

2000-04-24 13:10:03
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:08:40 EDT, John Stracke <francis(_at_)ecal(_dot_)com>  
said:
No, it turns out that what they mean by UNL is an artificial human language, a
common intermediary that any human text can be translated into; they postulate
translation servers that know how to translate between UNL and specific human
languages.  Much higher in the stack than IP.  :-)

Remember that the Babelfish, by allowing perfect communication, was the cause
of more and bloodier wars than anything else ever recorded... ;)

Douglas Adams was right...

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech



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