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WORD - CODE

an interchange of meaning

English is a versatile natural language with considerable flexibility on word meanings. English is also the international language of science and business and there is an increasing use of established words as shorthand to express technical or specialist meanings.

Word-code is being designed to allow complex text to be edited so that the precise meaning of ambiguous or specialist words can be translated by the reader.

We believe this will be of particular benefit to those for whom English is a second language. We also believe that if all official, legal, academic and product information documents were pre-edited using the word-code system, this would allow for much greater public accessibility.

The following pages lead through to a simulation: next →
 


Please note that Word-code is still a work in progress.
The guiding principles are set out in my short paper: Ambiguity and Metagraphemics.
 
List or webpages Page title Page description
word-codes.htm The cat sat on the mat | introduction The opening page for the "cat sat on the mat" illustration of textual ambiguity.
word-codes-1.htm The cat sat on the mat A page to illustrate the ambiguities possible within a simple sentence.
word-codes-sat.htm The cat sat on the mat | Sat A list of all the meanings of the word "sat" in relation to the sentence "the cat sat on the mat"
word-codes-mat.htm The cat sat on the mat | mat A list of all the meanings of the word "mat" in relation to the sentence "the cat sat on the mat"
word-codes.home.htm Word code | summary A summary of the word code disambiguation system, and providing an entry to further pages explaining the operation.
word-codes.colourcodes.htm Word code | colour codes A graphical explanation of the word-code colour coding system indicating degrees of ambiguity for given words
conclusion1.htm Word code | conclusion | original text The original text of the conclusion drawn from the word-code hypothesis: this text forms the basis of the subsequent word-code disambiguation.
conclusion2.htm Word code | conclusion | original text The coded text of the conclusion drawn from the word-code hypothesis: this text is categorised using colour coding to enable disambiguation.
conclusion-grey.htm Word code | conclusion | grey segment The coded text of the conclusion drawn from the word-code hypothesis: this text is categorised using the GREY colour coding to enable disambiguation.
conclusion-green.htm Word code | conclusion | green segment The coded text of the conclusion drawn from the word-code hypothesis: this text is categorised using the GREEN colour coding to enable disambiguation.
conclusion-blue.htm Word code | conclusion | blue segment The coded text of the conclusion drawn from the word-code hypothesis: this text is categorised using the BLUE colour coding to enable disambiguation.
conclusion-red.htm Word code | conclusion | red segment The coded text of the conclusion drawn from the word-code hypothesis: this text is categorised using the RED colour coding to enable disambiguation.
word-codes-end.htm Word code | conclusion page | alternative An alternative conclusion to the series of explanatory pages encompassing the Word-code system
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