Re: Representing futuristic English

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:15:45 +1200, zeborah@xxxxxxxxx
(Zeborah) wrote:
> The archaeologists in the scenario here *don't know
> that it's text*. They're looking at a CD, and have no
> idea what's on it. It could be pictures, or sound, or
> video, or olfactio, or a computer application compiled
> into assembly language. It could be a mixture of all
> the above; and all the above could be stored in
> multiple file formats. Which the archaeologists can
> start analysing once they've decided how the data is
> segmented on the CD.

There is going to be *some* text on the CD, and it will
be obvious it is text. That will give them a place to
start.


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