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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Matthew Mihaly <<A HREF="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:53:12 -0700 (PDT)</LI>
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Travis S. Casey wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> >
> > Mark, I hate to tell you this, but the population at large knows dick about
> > the conventions of natural language. They can't spell, their grammar is
> > atrocious, and their vocabulary is extremely limited. While NLP may be a
> > really nifty project to work on, it just plain isn't something users are
> > going to be able to work well with.
>
> These are very common misconceptions -- read any good introductory book on
> linguistics, or, for a more popular treatment, try Pinker's _The Language
> Instinct_. (Spelling has nothing to do with natural language -- only
> speech is natural. Over 90% of sentences spoken in casual conversation
> are perfectly grammatical (provided you're using the *actual* grammar of
> the language, and not the idealized "grammar" taught in schools). The
> average person knows more than four times as many words than Shakespeare
> used in all his writings.)
Saying that 90% of sentences spoken in casual conversation are
grammatically correct reveals either a lack of contact with the wider
world (no offence) or a willingness to define grammar as essentially
whatever is spoken. I can go to my local dive bar, pick a person at
random, and unless your definitions of correct grammar are extremely
loose, 90% of sentences spoken will not constructed using proper grammar.
--matt
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00379" HREF="msg00379.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
Cynbe ru Taren <a href="mailto:cynbe#muq,org">cynbe#muq,org</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 07:35 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00380" HREF="msg00380.html">[MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Mark Gritter <a href="mailto:mark#erdos,Stanford.EDU">mark#erdos,Stanford.EDU</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 09:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00381" HREF="msg00381.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 10:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00386" HREF="msg00386.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Travis S. Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 14:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00395" HREF="msg00395.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Wed 02 Jun 1999, 22:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00418" HREF="msg00418.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] Languages (slightly offtopic, was Text Parsing)</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:sarapis#achaea,com">sarapis#achaea,com</a>, Thu 03 Jun 1999, 02:19 GMT
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