[DGD] Non english parsing

[bart at wotf.org]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:30:46 -0800, Raymond Jennings wrote
> Just had an interesting thought.  Is there much of a consideration 
> out there for programming DGD's parser with a non english grammar?
> 
> Example:  japanese, or chinese...or maybe even klingon.
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Based on trying to create a parse_string based parser for my native Dutch
language, I found that more synthetic languages tend to not be well suited for
parsing with parse_string.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language

In general, the use of helper words, and splitting meaning over multiple words
makes writing a grammar relatively easy as modifiers usually become separate
tokens with predictable locations in a sentence.

Going from that, English and for example Mandarin should work well, but
Japanese and for example German would be rather difficult.

Bart.
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