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To what's hidden deep
behind the separate words
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syllable and letters?
:25:10
How could we discover that
language's cultural heritage?
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How could we formulate its
connections with history, politics
:25:20
...culture and everyday life
:25:25
How to know and understand...?
:25:28
...all that creates the
spirit of a language,
:25:31
its metasemantics...
:25:35
or perhaps even
its metaphpysics?
:25:38
According to Elliot, poetry is...
:25:41
...untranslatable
:25:44
But was Elliot necessarily right?
:25:48
Imagine a translator who...
:25:49
...is able to accumulate
the entire knowledge
:25:52
there is about words
or about a language
:25:55
A translator who has
an unlimited memory...
:25:58
that can be drawn from any time
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Used in an unconventional way,
:26:06
a computer may be something -
somebody - liomebody - like that
:26:12
Consider that instrument
:26:15
it seems to discern just two figures,
zero and one
:26:19
But actually it not only has something
that might be called intelligence
:26:23
but also a kind of consciousness
it select which means it makes a choice
:26:26
Or perhaps it might be
called conation?
:26:29
As I see it,
:26:34
an appropriately...
:26:36
programmed computer may have...
:26:41
it's own taste
:26:45
Aesthetical preferences...
:26:48
Individuality...
:26:50
Ah, yes...!
:26:53
For our next class...
:26:56
Please choose a line of any text...
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and do what i did