RE: Buffalo

[Yves JEAUROND <jingting -at- rogers -dot- com>]

Thanks to Lauren for reminding us that Quine sometimes got things 
very wrong. Translators work on languages they know.
  Working on an unknown language?
  There's nice fiction about that:
  - Ted Chiang "Story of Your Life" (in _Stories of Your Life and Othes_)  
  - Poul Anderson, _The Byworlder_

  Regards,
   
  YJ
  
Lauren <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu> a écrit :
  Gavagai!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation

Lauren


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> Subject: Buffalo
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> A grammatically correct sentence:
> 
> "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo
> 
> "Indeed, for any n ? 1, the sentence buffalo^n is grammatically
> correct.[3] The shortest is 'buffalo!', meaning either 'bully
> (someone)!', or 'look, there are buffalo, here!' For n = 0, this could
> be argued to be a valid garden path sentence if one's definition of
> 'sentence' allowed "" as a valid construction. Rational sentences,
> however, generally include at least one word and thus n = 0 is
> excluded from the preceding argument."
> 
> -- 
> Susan Hogarth
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