Imagine what might be possible if we had a Rosetta Stone to help
us actually "hear" what others really meant, instead of what
they were saying.I saw the Rosetta Stone last week, at the
British Museum. It's got an astonishing story, having been
decoded by an Englishman and a Frenchman, the latter having
quite a tendency to faint. Not that I blame him; if I were the
first person in over 1500 years who could read the inscription
on some monuments, I'd faint too. Remarkable as the rosetta
stone is, I'm afraid that it won't do what Todd's posting wants
for at least two reasons: - The Rosetta Stone only showed
equivalent sentences in different scripts (ancient Egyptian
hieroglyphs, demotic, ancient Greek); we need to go to a much
higher level. To describe what I mean by a higher level, let me
first describe some lower levels. In the 1980s, the
International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) defined a
reference model for computer communications. Lower levels
described signaling techniques, like this one, descri