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10297: Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)

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From: Jp Calderone <exarkun@flashmail.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:20:44 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Travis S. Casey wrote:
> 
[snip]
> How can "get the red box" be misunderstood, unless there is more than one
> red box in the area?  Or "put the red sword in the box on the table"?
> (Again, unless there's more than one sword, or more than one box on the
> table, or more than one table that has a box on it.)
> 
[snip]

Point for the ambiguity argument - Does "put the red sword in the box on
the
table" mean put the red sword you are holding/carrying in the box on the
table or put the red sword that is in the box onto the table?

	Jp Calderone
--
A sad spectacle.  If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and
folly.
If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
                -- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the stars



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