Comments on: Parlez-vous Usted English? http://blog.arlomidgett.com/2003/10/08/parlez-vous-usted-english/ Sporadic and rambling by design. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Arlo http://blog.arlomidgett.com/2003/10/08/parlez-vous-usted-english/#comment-19 Arlo Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:44:00 +0000 http://blog.arlomidgett.com/?p=11#comment-19 Hey, A., thanks for pointing out my mistake... but now that I fixed it, won't your comment look silly?<br /> <br /> Oh, and FYI: All the jokes in my blog were written by a computer!<br /> <br /> -A. Hey, A., thanks for pointing out my mistake… but now that I fixed it, won’t your comment look silly?

Oh, and FYI: All the jokes in my blog were written by a computer!

-A.

]]> By: A. http://blog.arlomidgett.com/2003/10/08/parlez-vous-usted-english/#comment-18 A. Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:48:33 +0000 http://blog.arlomidgett.com/?p=11#comment-18 Which is why I prefer magical realism to science fiction. Are you saying my script wouldn't translate well? heh heh. you said "cunning linguist." That wouldn't translate well either. Did you know there are already programs that can generate an abstract for your academic papers? And even more freaky: write jokes. One of my professors was on a panel of humans set to read a list of jokes and determine which were human and which were machine made. They couldn't tell. Which is why I prefer magical realism to science fiction. Are you saying my script wouldn’t translate well? heh heh. you said "cunning linguist." That wouldn’t translate well either. Did you know there are already programs that can generate an abstract for your academic papers? And even more freaky: write jokes. One of my professors was on a panel of humans set to read a list of jokes and determine which were human and which were machine made. They couldn’t tell.

]]> By: A. http://blog.arlomidgett.com/2003/10/08/parlez-vous-usted-english/#comment-17 A. Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:37:50 +0000 http://blog.arlomidgett.com/?p=11#comment-17 "mine could tell me if a word wasn’t in a dictionary, but do anything else." add couldn't. "mine could tell me if a word wasn’t in a dictionary, but do anything else." add couldn’t.

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