From: Michael J Smith
Message: 25713
Date: 2003-09-10
> huh? I don't think that that is an appropriate way of representing a________________________________________________________________
> language family. The flow would only be down-stream, coming to
> branching points, for which the IF-THEN-ELSE conditions are
> generally unknown, only the effects. Presumably, an parent language
> COULD represent input and a daughter language COULD represent
> output, and I suppose the development timeline COULD represent
> throughput. However, in many cases, a daughter language becomes an
> parent language to a new daughter language or language group. In
> many cases, in the model that you're proposing, the daughter
> process(es) will feed output back into the parent process, but I
> can't think of any case in which a daugther language feeds back into
> or influences the development of its parent. What kind of mechanism
> did you envision for storage?
>
> Andy Howey
>
> Michael <lookwhoscross-eyednow@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> What's the best way to represent the Indo-European language family,
> or any branch or sub-branch of IE, as a scientific system, with the
> 5 key components of Inputs, Flows or throughputs, Stores or storage
> areas and Outputs? Or is this even possible and can a model of this
> be made at all?
>
> -Michael
>
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