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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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Subject: Re: Syntactical *definition* of English
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Date: 20 Oct 88 23:27:33 GMT
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>You may remember that Context Free Languages were discovered by a
>Linguist, Noam Chomsky, not a computer scientist.  At the time (mid
>......

Eh?

I think somebody forgot Type 0 = Turing Machine.

Anyway, check out Appendix ?B of Terry Winograd's book, some or other,
Part I: Syntax.

No, nobody has a complete, formal syntax/semantics of any natural language,
but, you said you wanted it for a game? this kind of stuff covers most cases.
For what it doesn't, just respond

       Eh? I'm sorry, I don't understand; could you repeat that using
       simpler sentence?