Re: A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever
- From: David Cameron Staples <staples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:05:17 GMT
in Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:49:04 +0000, Paul Colquhoun in hic locum scripsit:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:01:42 GMT, David Cameron Staples
<staples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | in Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:21:45 +0000,
Logan Shaw in hic locum scripsit: |>
|> Or, search for all occurrences of the word "not" in e-mail messages
|> and web pages, and remove it at random a certain small percentage of
|> the time. Removing the word "not" will almost never cause a sentence
|> to no longer parse correctly. However, it does change the semantics
|> just a bit.
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| Let's see:
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|> Or, search for all occurrences of the word "" in e-mail messages |>
and web pages, and remove it at random a certain small percentage of |>
the time.
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| There's usually a counterexample if you look hard enough.
That still seems to parse correctly (assuming two consecutive quote
marks count as a word), and it has changed the semantics.
Are you sure it was a counterexample?
How do you pronounce '""'?
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