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Devin appears to be the CARASSO of comp.ai.nat-lang...

In comp.ai.nat-lang, devin@aloha.com (Chaumont Devin) writes:

|The Martian Encyclopedia of Knowledge, 2549:
|
|Computational Linguist -- Member of an archaic society dedicated to the
|obfuscation and transmutation of natural languages using digital computers.
|
|The last computational linguist, Prof. Collin Michelton, was vaporized
|at his work station on Nov. 13, 2020, while attempting to translate the
|following text into Neo-Swahili:
|
|"i beheld satan as lightning fall from heaven."
|
|He was a member of an organization called the "Wycliff Bible Transmuters,"
|proponents of an ancient religion called "Christianity."  It appears that for
|some obscure reason the World Wide Web, which at that time had only begun to
|show signs of being sentient, objected to the semantic content of this text.
