(urth) 5HC : Chinese boxes or tea chests?

[Maru Dubshinki]

Of course they do: context matters.  When translating it's not a
matter of just swapping syntactic structures, grammar, and voabulary-
if it was, machine translation woulda been licked a long time ago. 
Those are low level rules- there are rules that govern how the story
acts, and how the meaning units interact. Contextual rules, not just
syntactic rules, if that makes sense.

~Maru
Microsoft delenda est.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:47:12 +0000 (GMT), Jim Raylor
<rjraylor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I sometimes wonder if interpreters at the UN (for
> example) pay any heed to the meaning of the messages
> they translate, beyond what is required to translate
> the words.
> For example an eccentric translator could perversely
> translate a book by cutting it into individual
> sentences, translating each one in random order and
> then reassembling them in the original order.
> 
> I seem to recall a program which regularly fooled
> people into thinking it was a client-centred
> psychotherapist.
> 
> How do you feel about a program which regularly fooled
> people into thinking it was a client-centred psychotherapist?
> 
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