The AI Engine

Singular, dual or plural.

Isn't something dual also plural? 2 > 1?

Many languages have these "oddities." In Japanese, you would say "pass the x pencil" and "pass the y ball", where x goes in front of things that are long and thin, like pencils, and y goes in front of things that are round, like balls.

So what would they put in front of one of those puffed up fishes, with the spindles?

Hmmmm... I guess that would be z, which goes in front of all words referring to objects that look like puffed-up spindally fish thingies.

Dual means just two, and plural means more than two. Dual is used for body parts that come in pairs, like hands and feet.

This is the AI engine forum and is supposed to be used for (duh) the AI engine. Not Hebrew.

Oh,well I guess one thing lead to another..

FYI botmaster the AI engine is concerned with the eccentricities of all languages (because it will be multi-lingual one day), so in actuality you have posted errantly

Personally I think bots would be easier to write in Latin, if we knew it. Meaning is more precise, so it would be easier to come up with keyphrases.

Esperanto would be even simpler, since you hardly have to do any verb conjugation. Of course, we'd have to become fluent in it first.

I've heart a lot of Esperanto- what is it?

Um. Esperanto is a language invented about a hundred years ago to be a universal language. The grammar is very simple, and so is the spelling. It has obvious elements of Latin and German (and maybe Polish?) but is quicker to learn than any of those. It also causes speakers of different languages to meet each other halfway, since it's nobody's mother tongue. I'm taking an online course in it--there are lots of free courses.

Anyway.....a bot that speaks Esperanto would be very streamlined and would not rely on word order for the meaning of the sentence.

Check out http://newterminus.com/esp.html which is a comic about Esperanto. This is what got me so interested.