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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: SF & Language - Minimums
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In article <3323d888.11658489@news.accessone.com>,
Frank <fchess@usa.net> wrote:

>If the context is contact via radio (a la SETI),  the mathematician
>Hans Freudenthal devised the language Lincos for precisely that
>purpose. He wrote an entire book describing the language, which
>defines mathematical and physical concepts using nothing more than
>radio signals. ...

	I once saw a written example of it, but it used some rather 
unintelligible symbols. Might it not be possible to substitute a lot of 
natural-language words for some of these symbols, the way one does with 
computer programming languages?

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