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> When we become proficient in describing the result in terms of the argument, using only the present tense of the verb to be, we could experiment with writing
by Joker_vD 3y ago
> When we become proficient in describing the result in terms of the argument, using only the present tense of the verb to be, we could experiment with writing the description in a different language (French, Latin, Esperanto, ...) before transliterating it into code.
This is going to be a funny exercise for languages that don't have the forms of the verb to be for the present tense.
- 082349872349872 3y ago(that wasn't his point, but) Just elide the copula, mutatis mutandis. For instance, in BELTABOL[0], an is-y language in lang belta[1], statements are (insofar as possible) in grammatical belter creole, which elides present tense to be. The missing copula is in square brackets in the translation below: Da gcd im fong max,walowda(wok) gcd, it [is] out of max,many(walk) Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezU-F028krU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezU-F028krU [0] https://github.com/demaere-oiie/beltabol https://github.com/demaere-oiie/beltabol [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belter_Creole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belter_Creole Xalte ere gova da Cant!
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> This is going to be a funny exercise for languages that don't have the forms of the verb to be for the present tense. You mean Russian?