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There are cases where the same word/name has multiple meanings in different lexicons, but natural languages generally don't have a namespace-like mechanism for disambiguation. The closest thing we probably have is the "in the XXX sense" construction, like "Are there any standards at this parade, in the 'banner' sense?" If we did have namespace declarations and references in the course of a conversation, how would we ever be able to pun? :-) Eve At 09:24 PM 12/14/99 +0000, Steve Schafer wrote: >On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:37:10 -0800, "Don Park" <donpark@d...> >wrote: > > >"Why isn't there namespaces in normal languages like English?" > >There are most certainly namespaces in English. _Every_ trade and >profession has its own terminology and jargon, which uses the same >words used elsewhere but which have very context-specific >interpretations. > >Even when you restrict yourself to casual conversation, a milkshake in >Boston is a very different thing from a milkshake in Los Angeles. In a >London pub, a man might ask a woman who was getting up to leave, "Mind >if I pinch your seat?" Saying the same thing in New York might result >in him ending up on the floor. > >-Steve Schafer -- Eve Maler Sun Microsystems elm @ east.sun.com +1 781 442 3190 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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