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Re: Simplifying the Church / Turing thesis

By olcott on Sun May 17 08:48:39 2026

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Sperm whale clicks resemble human language

By DDeden on Wed May 6 14:05:55 2026

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Script in No More Bets

By Christian Weisgerber on Tue May 5 13:52:05 2026

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Quebec "old-fashioned and hard-to-read script"?

By Christian Weisgerber on Sat May 2 19:11:13 2026

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reddit= Readers' Electronic Digest & Discussion of Interesting Topics

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri May 1 04:17:37 2026

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(Lexical Bridge) -- (Don't post answers) -- (Give me more problems)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Apr 25 01:52:41 2026

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Constructed languages (conlangs): How to invent a realistic language for fictional speakers

By Tilde on Fri Apr 24 23:45:15 2026

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GCHQ Monday Puzzle____ "Slush" -- (UK vs US English)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 9 16:39:50 2026

Latest reply by Aidan Kehoe on Sat Apr 11 07:25:49 2026
=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9Cslush=E2=80=9D__---__Gooey_and/or__Sticky_=3F?=

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Apr 10 16:48:16 2026

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--- For GroupA, ......., but for GroupB.........

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 9 16:57:33 2026

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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 2 18:19:19 2026

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Tin-eared --- ( Tin-man and Thin-man related ? )

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Apr 1 16:52:50 2026

Latest reply by Mr. Man-wai Chang on Fri Apr 3 13:18:47 2026
Dark / Far side of the Moon -- (low freq. in 1900-1940)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 2 15:53:47 2026

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Australian police shoot dead suspect in officer killings

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Apr 1 16:45:35 2026

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Humans/honeyguides cooperation

By Tilde on Fri Mar 20 22:42:17 2026

Latest reply by Lev on Mon Mar 30 21:09:03 2026
kakoism

By guido wugi on Tue Mar 24 10:58:42 2026

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Ben Blatt's statistical Analysis of (Medals won in) 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Mar 15 16:40:47 2026

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Re: on enumerating circle-free sequences: a fallacy in turing's paper on computable numbers

By Tristan Wibberley on Tue Mar 10 17:38:23 2026

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(Ling. Puzzle) (who is fondly remembered by fans of ...)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Mar 10 00:27:39 2026

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Re: Mangled Message Matrix

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Mar 9 03:14:00 2026

Latest reply by James Dow Allen on Mon Mar 9 10:05:53 2026
Greenland -- Within USA, D.Trump is divisive. Elsewhere...

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Mar 8 03:27:29 2026

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(more Analogies pls) -- LENIN : PSEUDONYMOUS :: LENINGRAD : ?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Mar 7 01:38:40 2026

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Squares of 1 to 10 are spelt out in Ndom language . . . nif, sas, [ "mer abo ithin" ]

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Mar 6 01:13:05 2026

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Re: Postilion sentence in Duolingo Turkish.

By Aidan Kehoe on Fri Feb 27 06:37:03 2026

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SH returned the Reichenbach Falls

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Feb 25 00:04:04 2026

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Radius of This Circle? -- (Her Accent?)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Feb 22 19:29:57 2026

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1953 crime movie "Vice Squad" has linguist nail a con man

By Tilde on Tue Feb 17 23:11:28 2026

Latest reply by Aidan Kehoe on Thu Feb 19 11:27:04 2026
(Jp PM Takaichi's English) -- Trunk Fump!

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Feb 16 18:01:13 2026

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By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Feb 16 06:02:49 2026

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Resurrection of words

By Tilde on Sun Feb 15 22:36:49 2026

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AI-generated Video Clip -- Jp PM (Takaichi) as a Super-Hero

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Feb 5 04:58:34 2026

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Re: Why 'dog collar' for the clergy? -- Pope's nose

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Feb 13 16:33:56 2026

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Re: Making all knowledge expressed in language computable

By olcott on Wed Feb 11 06:38:04 2026

Latest reply by Richard Damon on Thu Feb 12 23:11:32 2026
Re: Song Lyrics

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Feb 10 17:25:40 2026

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Changing the foundational basis to Proof Theoretic Semantics Tarski Undefinability is overcome

By olcott on Thu Feb 5 10:55:56 2026

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Re: (Using a Cannon aiming at the snow) ----------- (Sand-surfing)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Feb 8 08:54:52 2026

Latest reply by athel.cb@gmail.com on Sun Feb 8 11:17:01 2026
Test your (Latest- TV-Show) IQ

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Dec 16 22:19:59 2025

Latest reply by Tilde on Sat Feb 7 22:33:49 2026
(Using a Cannon aiming at the snow) ----------- (Sand-surfing)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Feb 6 11:17:13 2026

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stats 2026-01 ---- Some Comments

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Feb 4 01:57:13 2026

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Re: Is there a Usenet group for Paint.Net (Paint Dot Net) ?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Feb 4 02:21:07 2026

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Oh boy! Vonich Manuscript in the news!

By Tilde on Fri Jan 30 23:07:33 2026

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Girl was (in danger of) being Electrocuted --- the Man's quick thinking saved her

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Jan 22 21:51:09 2026

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By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Jan 23 03:05:00 2026

Latest reply by wugi on Tue Jan 27 21:20:09 2026
in Spanish, Press and Oppress are the same verb. -- FR, GER

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Jan 24 19:34:32 2026

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Re: was was etc.

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Jan 23 03:01:12 2026

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ai LLMs are inherently xenophobic(?)

By DDeden on Fri Jan 23 01:50:35 2026

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Did Homo Erectus Have a (Vocal) Language?

By Primum Sapienti on Fri Jan 16 23:18:05 2026

Latest reply by JTEM on Thu Jan 22 22:37:15 2026
nice Tesla car in PRC -- (vs. Big Truck)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Jan 12 19:29:15 2026

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=?UTF-8?Q?Closing_the_gap_of_G=C3=B6del_Incompleteness_with_Proof-T?= =?UTF-8?Q?heoretic_Semantics?=

By olcott on Wed Jan 14 15:36:14 2026

Latest reply by Richard Damon on Fri Jan 16 13:52:40 2026
(Don't post the answer) -- What Obstacle is an anagram of an antonym of a homophone of an anagram of TEAM?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Dec 31 06:32:31 2025

Latest reply by James Dow Allen on Fri Jan 16 13:57:30 2026
"For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like."

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Jan 8 02:52:09 2026

Latest reply by athel.cb@gmail.com on Thu Jan 15 15:58:21 2026
75 annos con interlingua

By Ruud Harmsen on Tue Jan 13 13:12:51 2026

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(real-life Puzzle) -- Auto accident -- Which Car is at fault?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Jan 12 17:54:59 2026

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Re: is the ct-thesis cooked?

By Tristan Wibberley on Tue Jan 13 07:02:46 2026

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=?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Boiling_G=C3=B6del=27s_1931_Incompleteness_proof_do?= =?UTF-8?Q?wn_to_its_barest_essence?=

By olcott on Sun Jan 11 08:32:00 2026

Latest reply by Mikko on Mon Jan 12 13:05:02 2026
Re: Computation and Undecidability

By olcott on Sun Jan 11 12:12:42 2026

Latest reply by olcott on Sun Jan 11 12:12:42 2026
Sign language in the Avatar movies.

By Tilde on Sun Dec 28 23:10:35 2025

Latest reply by Ross Clark on Sun Jan 11 08:54:22 2026
=?UTF-8?Q?Why_do_people_ignore_how_G=C3=B6del_simplified_his_own_pr?= =?UTF-8?Q?oof=3F?=

By olcott on Mon Jan 5 18:06:15 2026

Latest reply by Richard Damon on Sun Jan 11 07:37:57 2026
PTD -- (Peter T. Daniels) -- Why did he stop posting in AUE, Sci.Lang ?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Jan 8 19:11:47 2026

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By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Dec 18 07:24:42 2025

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=?UTF-8?Q?Why_do_people_ignore_the_simplifications_that_G=C3=B6del_?= =?UTF-8?Q?admitted_to_=3F?=

By olcott on Mon Jan 5 08:04:28 2026

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Computing truth values from finite strings

By olcott on Sat Jan 3 16:15:51 2026

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Re: The ultimate foundation of [a priori] Truth

By olcott on Fri Jan 2 15:24:36 2026

Latest reply by Richard Damon on Sun Jan 4 20:25:01 2026
A crossword puzzle: HCE + ALP

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Jan 2 01:44:58 2026

Latest reply by Ilan Mayer on Sun Jan 4 22:13:00 2026
Re: Key difference between math and the philosophy of math

By olcott on Fri Jan 2 17:17:25 2026

Latest reply by Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on Sat Jan 3 22:20:03 2026
QI (UK TV) with Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, ...

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Jan 1 21:17:18 2026

Latest reply by HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Jan 2 19:31:53 2026
Build

By Ruud Harmsen on Tue Dec 16 18:55:50 2025

Latest reply by DDeden on Fri Dec 26 19:42:09 2025
Serial Prefixes --- chain of length- 4

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Dec 25 20:52:11 2025

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First documented use of: "finite string transformation rules"

By olcott on Sun Dec 21 17:12:15 2025

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Re: Off is the new on

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Dec 19 00:58:41 2025

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Teaser for upcoming Spielberg movie features alien language

By Tilde on Tue Dec 16 23:39:58 2025

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I played this Sudoku until it was available at [URL], but . . .

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Nov 28 17:06:56 2025

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A new category of thought

By olcott on Sat Nov 29 10:32:11 2025

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cmsg cancel

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Re: NPR (CarTalk) (100 passengers lined up to board an airplane) -- The Last Seat

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Dec 2 15:06:02 2025

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=?UTF-8?Q?lion_roar_=e2=80=98accents=e2=80=99_may_form_from_a_mixtu?= =?UTF-8?Q?re_of_location=2c_social_learning=2c_and_genetics?=

By Tilde on Sun Nov 30 22:38:45 2025

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Re: translating Iron Maiden songs into Russian

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Dec 1 01:02:20 2025

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Re: A new foundation for correct reasoning +++

By olcott on Sat Nov 29 09:18:26 2025

Latest reply by Alan Mackenzie on Sat Nov 29 20:48:31 2025
(Spiral Codewords) -- your first few Moves ?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Nov 29 17:23:11 2025

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T-theory A-theory theatheory

By Ross Finlayson on Sun Nov 2 11:58:58 2025

Latest reply by Mild Shock on Tue Nov 25 20:17:10 2025
(Prefix, Suffix) --- (Don't Post THE answer)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Nov 18 04:07:06 2025

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=?UTF-8?Q?The_phrase_=E2=80=9Ca_CH_over_six_foot=E2=80=9D_likely?= =?UTF-8?Q?_refers_to_a_=22CH=22_being_a_shorthand_for_...?=

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 16 07:23:43 2025

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Re: (German) Wahrschau, from Dutch verb Waarschuwen (to Warn)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 16 18:48:41 2025

Latest reply by nospam on Sun Nov 16 22:42:25 2025
Ngram for (Sake, Sakes) Singular is much more common in Am-Eng and Br-Eng

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 16 19:32:26 2025

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(German) Wahrschau, from Dutch verb Waarschuwen (to Warn)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 16 07:27:13 2025

Latest reply by Christian Weisgerber on Sun Nov 16 16:27:03 2025
IQ test (Mensa) -- (Seek Whence) -- 2 puzzles.

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Nov 14 02:28:47 2025

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IQ test (What comes next) -- (Welk figuur moet het vraagteken vervangen ... ?)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Nov 14 01:01:51 2025

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( Spazy Croonerisms ) -- (Don't post Answers) -- Pls give me a few more problems

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Nov 11 09:37:06 2025

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Re: ( Spazy Croonerisms ) -- (DON'T give me the answers!) -- Pls give me a few more problems like these!

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Nov 11 09:32:56 2025

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Dance

By DDeden on Mon Nov 3 11:13:08 2025

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Signs on Teotihuacan murals may reveal an early form of Uto-Aztecan language

By Tilde on Tue Nov 4 21:05:19 2025

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Mayan Dresden Codex and eclipse prediction

By Tilde on Mon Oct 27 22:27:24 2025

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Re: (What are these sequences?) --- (For each line, What is the next letter?) H, H, L, B, B, C, N, ? D, P,

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Oct 25 22:23:44 2025

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Palos Verdes, Palo Alto

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Oct 23 18:05:39 2025

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Re: Paleo-etymology 2025

By DDeden on Mon Sep 29 14:07:24 2025

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Etymology of 'tall'

By DDeden on Wed Oct 22 21:31:59 2025

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Student contest: 2025 Babel Young Writers' Competition

By Tristan Miller on Mon Oct 20 13:31:03 2025

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In Amharic , [qum] means to Stop (for males)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Oct 8 17:20:56 2025

Latest reply by Ruud Harmsen on Sun Oct 19 00:25:39 2025
knarkish knark dealer knelt nervously near the knotted knapsack, the knight knocked on the knoll, knowing the knotty knowledge

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Oct 17 21:48:11 2025

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Fundamentals of parsing, an AI conversation and definition of "protophora"

By Ross Finlayson on Mon Oct 13 16:15:52 2025

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Halting problem proof converted to Liar Paradox --- never resolves to a truth value

By olcott on Sun Oct 12 10:09:08 2025

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Re: Defeating the Tarski Undefinability Theorem

By olcott on Sun Oct 5 09:03:37 2025

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still using cursive in their letters ???

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Oct 4 17:55:26 2025

Latest reply by Rich Ulrich on Sun Oct 5 00:39:12 2025
Word of the day: clyster

By Aidan Kehoe on Sun Sep 21 07:39:56 2025

Latest reply by Christian Weisgerber on Tue Sep 30 10:32:51 2025
=?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Fast-growing_brains_may_explain_how_humans?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94and_marmosets=E2=80=94learn_to_talk?=

By DDeden on Mon Sep 29 14:23:35 2025

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=?UTF-8?Q?AI_is_helping_to_decode_animals=e2=80=99_speech?=

By Tilde on Sun Sep 21 23:21:51 2025

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(Don't post the RIGHT answer) --- A. Leaf, B. Part, C. Mitt, D. Corn, E. Saw

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Jul 16 19:58:12 2025

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