Re: Buffalo

Subject: Re: Buffalo
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: Yves JEAUROND <jingting -at- rogers -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:31:19 -0700



I like the surreal drift of Gavagai! "Lo, a momentary rabbit-stage"
indeed :-)

--Ned


Yves JEAUROND wrote:
> 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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