Klarinet Archive - Posting 000266.txt from 2005/03
From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk> Subj: Re: [kl] Things to say after concerts Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 12:30:05 -0500
...then there are the quasi-paradoxes: I thought you were very good, but I'm
no judge of these things, of course.
Roger S.
In message <22370-422C839C-867@-----.net>
klarinet@-----.org writes:
> ...and the classic:
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> Time flies like an arrow
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> for which a computer program found seven meanings (more meanings than
> the sentence has words). This was back in the days when linguists
> first thought that computers may be able to understand natural language.
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....compared with it at its best, English has reached the
Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
----- Raymond Chandler ("Notes on English and American style")
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