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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Table-lookup Chinese speaker
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Date: 29 Jan 92 01:04:14 GMT
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In article <1992Jan24.232614.5767@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>In article <1992Jan24.193202.9713@aisb.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>>Look, do you want a test for understanding, or a test for whether
>>someone is in a room that also contains a clock and some recent
>>newspapers?
>
>Try reading my post before replying to it.

A classic of net.rhetoric!

>  The paragraph in question said
>nothing about clocks and recent newspapers. 

I can only sermise that you have forgotten the context of the
discussion.  Indeed, in the same message you say such things as:

  The program with the time stamp is not the simple lookup table any more.

and

  But besides this, there are other questions we can ask to stump the
  table-lookup machine.  "What city are we in?"  "What year is it?"

-- jd


