Formalized means for expressing simple vocabularies
"These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall
those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese
encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent
Knowledge. On those remote pages it is written that animals are
divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed
ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e)
mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are
included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if
they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a
very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have
just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a
distance." -- Essay: "The Analytical Language of John
Wilkins", in La Nación, 8 February 1942