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Re: Turing Test Meaningless?



John Lesher (lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
: Nathan Mates (nathan@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
: : In article <4m55d8$d8n@news.ysu.edu>,
: : Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:

: 	When you're trying to put across an idea -- ANY IDEA -- you
: use any method to your disposal.  You DO try to make your point as 
: clear as possible.  This is why there are rules in English -- to make
: transmitted ideas as clear as possible.  But it is NOT THE END OF THE
: WORLD if you BREAK THE RULES.  As long as the idea you are trying to
: transmit is sent, WHO CARES about grammar.  Or speling :-).

	7h3 pUrP05e 0f (0|\/||\/|u|\|1c4710n 15 2 B u|\|d3r5700d.  Feel free 
to express yourself any way you see fit, but don't be surprised if you're 
ignored when you choose to communicate by non-standard methods.  I rarely 
read any post which doesn't attempt to employ standard English usage, 
unless the poster is more fluent in another langauge ;) 

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