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Re: Re : Re: Re : Case, Innateness, Almost Allnoun, NGL.

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Friday, August 6, 1999, 1:59
From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:
>=20 > Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 05/08/99 23:00:40 , tu as =E9crit : >=20 > ever heard of Eurotra ? > > > > Reductionism isn't what we want to do. >=20 > wasting billions isn't what european taxpayers wanted either.
Oh, they'd just waste it some other way. Now there is UNL and C-STAR and XML. The vodka is still good and the meat rottener. [1]
> > I'm just trying to figure out how to SVO without tripping. > > Since SVO is child's play, no need for metaphysical roles. >=20 > it's not metaphysical. it's just what's in your brain. > or rather in mine. dunno about yours. picking accurate V2 > depends on that analysis.
I had to get an MRI; and they found nothing. You are right about V2 (preposition) accuracy. And sometimes accuracy is very desireable.
> don't underestimate children's brain and don't overrate > computers' pain.
My job is to give pain to computers. People are so lazy/efficient they bypass accuracy, so programs must really understand the whole sentence before the individual words.
> in my world sword, shield and the like don't necessarily > derive from verbs. they may just be instruments : mediums, tools, > food, etc. and you may derive verbs from them if you like it :-)
I think it is really best to derive everything from adjectives. [1] Old machine translation joke; "Spirit is willing but flesh is weak".