ccc3/grammar/main.tex

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\def\Clong{\z{811\#0*034C534*4\#C004-*\#3*75} }
\title{\Clong\\{\large A CCC3 Submission}}
\author{Annwan}
\date{2024}

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\section{Presentation}

\Clong is the language of telephone exchanges

\section{Phone-ology}

Telephone exchanges cannot speak like humans do. Instead, \Clong uses DTMF
Keypad Tones to convey information.

Here is a table of DTMF tones for reference.

\begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{c|cccc}
        & \bf 1209 Hz & \bf 1336 Hz & \bf 1477 Hz & \bf 1633 Hz \\\hline
        \bf 697 Hz & \z 1 & \z 2 & \z 3 & \z A \\
        \bf 770 Hz & \z 4 & \z 5 & \z 6 & \z B \\
        \bf 852 Hz & \z 7 & \z 8 & \z 9 & \z C \\
        \bf 941 Hz & \z * & \z 0 & \z \# & \z D
    \end{tabular}
\end{center}



\section{Units of meaning -- Packets}

Semantic information is encoded into packets. A packet can be of 5 types: {\bf
Semantic}, {\bf Proper Noun}, {\bf Syntactic}, {\bf Continuation} and {\bf
Variable}. A packet is a sequences of coniguous tones surrounded by blanks.
additionally individual packets have a maximal length of 20 tones. If a
packet's information would exceed that length limit, the extra data shall be
included in one or more continuation packets.

\subsection{Semantic Packet}

A semantic packet is a packet encoding a concept. It uses the Universal Decimal
Clasification to encode the topics. Numeric values are encoded with their
appropriate digit, dots are encoded with \z*, slashes are encoded with \z A.
dashes are encoded with \z{BA}, equals with \z{BB}, column with \z C and quotes
with \z D and parens with \z\#. This has the side effect that semantic packets
cannot start with \z*.

A reference to a variable (see \ref{variables}) starts with \z{B*} and ends with
\z{B\#}. The variable prefix is omitted in that use.

\newpage
\subsection{Proper Nouns}

A proper noun packet is encoded as follows:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Two Stars (\z{**})
\item The length of the encoding of the proper noun in tones, expressed as an
hexadecimal digit where \z* stands for 14, \z\# stands for 15 and \z0
stands for 16.
\item the proper noun encoded according to EBCDIC page 00803 in hexadecimal
where \z* stands for 0xE and \z\# stands for 0xF.
\end{enumerate}
If the noun exceeds 16 tones (8 bytes) when encoded, one shall use continuation
packets.

If the noun cannot be fully encoded into EBCDIC 00803 it shall be expressed
as a sequences of hexadecimal unicode codepoints of the form U+xxxxxxxx in
normalised decomposed form  then subsequently encoded to EBCDIC page 00803

A proper noun must be followed by a semantic packet qualifying the nature of
the entity described by the proper noun.

\subsection{Syntactic Packet}

Syntactic Packets start with a \z* followed by one or more digit or letters. If
they take parameters those are expressed after the Syntactic packet in the order
specified. They are of two kinds:

\subsubsection {Morphological packets} There exists 5 such packets. They encode
the gramatical role of parameters in the sentence.

\begin{description}
\item[Assertive \z{*1}] takes one argument and produces the clause that
asserts that the postulate is true, or that the object exists
\item[Intransitive \z{*2A}] takes two arguments and produces the clause with
the first argument as Agent and the second argument as Verb
\item[Intransitive Passive \z{*2B}] takes two arguments and produces the
clause with the first argument as Patient and the second argument as Verb
\item[Transitive \z{*3}] takes three arguments and produces the clause with the
first argument as Subject, the sencond argument as Object, and the third
argument as Verb. For an equivalent of a passive construction, simply reverse
the arguments
\item[Ditransitive \z{*4}] takes four arguments and produces the clause with
the first argument as Subject, the second as Object, the third as Beneficiary
and the fourth as Verb.
\item[Collectionaliser \z{*C}] takes two constructs and forms the collection of
    those constructs. For larger collections, one instance of the
    collectionaliser is required per element. While the order is not
    gramatically mandated, it is common to emit all the collectionalisers of a
    group at the start, then list the elements.
\end{description}

\subsubsection{Referential Packets}
\begin{description}
    \item[Proper Noun Qualifier \z{*D}] Proper nouns cannot be used on their
        own, instead they must be qualified by:LL: the type of {\it thing} refered
        to by the proper noun. For that one uses this qualifer. Takes a proper
        noun and a common noun and produces the a reference to the {\it thing}
        described by the common noun refered to by the proper noun.
    \item[Variable Definition Packet \z{*0}] takes a variable name and a
        syntactic construct and assigns the syntactic construct as value of the
        variable. the Variable may, after this point be used in stead of the
        construct, this is effectively a pronoun, but not limited to just nouns
        and noun phrases.
    \item[Participant Reference \z{*A1} and \z{*A2}] refer to the
        participants of the conversation. The respectly refer to the speaker,
        the listner and both the speaker and the listner
    \item
\end{description}



\subsection{Continuation Packet}

A continuation packet is used whenever a packet goes over it's maximum size
(3+16 tones for proper noun packets, 20 tones for semantic packets) to contain
the rest of the information to be contained.

A continuation packet is formed as follws
\begin{itemize}
    \item A Star and an Octothorpe (\z{*\#})
    \item The number of tones in the body of the semantic packet as a single
        hexadecimal digit with \z* standing for 14, \z\# standing for 15 and \z0
        standing for 16.
    \item The tones of the body
\end{itemize}

If the entire contents cannot be fit in the body of the packey, more
continuation packets shall be used.

\subsection{Variable packet}\label{variables}

A variable packet represents a variable to be refered too as later, they act a
bit like pronouns but can refer to any construct of the language. They are
formed by two Octothorpes followed by the identifier of the variables composed
of up to 18 digits.

\section{Actually communicating -- Flow control and error correction}

The packets previously documented are only the encapsulated semantic meaning of
language. An actual conversation would use the following flow control language:

A discussion is initiated by a 

\section{Sample Texts}

These text samples do not contain the control flow communications. The
corresponding audio samples are as if said by a speaker at adress 42069
(decimal) broadcasting to the network.

\begin{quote}
Hark! It was ruled by Agamashuya and His son Gu Sabah: Tian practices against
the lesser side of the invisible origin of light, beset by cosmetic prohibitions
of silence and restraint; for Ngu, a slave to creativity, shall make inspection
and certification prior to confirmation of Najva Guns’ official status. Deny
thine humanity: There are no politics in real life.
\end{quote}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\cs_set:Npn \__nguh_multigloss_word:nn #1#2 {
    \allowbreak

    \hbox {
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            \ttfamily \__nguh_gloss_rescan:n {\ignorespaces#1} \\
            \noalign{\vskip-6pt}
            \scshape  \__nguh_gloss_rescan:n {\ignorespaces#2} \\
        \end{tabular}
    }

    \space
}
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\catcode`#=12
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    *B | *B | *B
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    *1 |  *A1 |  *0 |  ##0 |  *D | **0*44*#0#0#0#0#0#0 
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    *#0*44*#0#0#0#0#0#0 | *#0#7#9*44*#0#0#0#0 | *#8#0#0#6#1 |  BA05 |  *3 |  *C
    cont | cont | cont | person | trans | col
    
    ##0 |  *D | **0*44*#0#0#0#0#0#0
    var[0] | ppn | ``Gu Sabah''

    *#0#4#7*44*#0#0#0#0 | *#0#0#0#7#5*44*#0#0 | *#0#0#0#0#0#2#0*44*
    cont | cont | cont
    
    *#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#5#3 | *#0*44*#0#0#0#0#0#0 | *#0#6#1*44*#0#0#0#0
    cont | cont | cont
    
    *#0#0#0#6#2*44*#0#0 | *#0#0#0#0#0#6#1*44* | *#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#6#8
    cont | cont | cont
    
    BA055*1B0BA055*6CB*0 | *#4B#B1 |  * |  328
    {\nf male child of} var[0] | cont | gnr | govern
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