Natural language
1. A natural language is one that evolved along with a culture of human native speakers who use the language for general-purpose communication. Languages like English, American Sign Language and Japanese are natural languages, while languages like Esperanto are called constructed languages, having been deliberately created for a specific purpose.Constructed languages can still have "native" speakers, if children learn it at a young age from parents who have learned the language; there are estimated to be 200-2000 native speakers of Esperanto, for example.
2. Sometimes any language used by human beings (be it naturally evolved like English, or constructed like Esperanto) is considered a "natural" language, while programming languages and data representation languages for computers are classed as artificial. This usage can be seen in the term natural language processing.
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parts of the Punic Wars contributed to Raleigh's "History of the
Jonson accompanied Raleigh's son abroad in the capacity of a tutor.
the Revels, a post for which he was peculiarly fitted; but he did
degrees by both universities, though when and under what
escaped the honour of knighthood, which the satirists of the day
Worse men were made knights in his day than worthy Ben Jonson.
From 1616 to the close of the reign of King James, Jonson produced
wonted studies" with such assiduity that he became in reality, as
theory of authorship involved a wide acquaintance with books and
another poet to his own use." Accordingly Jonson read not only the
acquainted himself especially with the Latin writings of his
antiquities and curious lore as well as their more solid learning.
He told Drummond that "the Earl of Pembroke sent him 20 pounds every
his library was destroyed by fire, an accident serio-comically
now a book turns up from time to time in which is inscribed, in
to Jonson's use of his material, Dryden said memorably of him:
plagiary of all the others; you track him everywhere in their
fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a
him." And yet it is but fair to say that Jonson prided himself,
Sallust's account of the conspiracy, but he models some of the
"Poetaster," he lifts a whole satire out of Horace and dramatises
situation of "The Silent Woman"; a Latin comedy of Giordano Bruno,
Alchemist," the "Mostellaria" of Plautus, its admirable opening
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