From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!ech Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Re: Time flies... - (nf) Article-I.D.: whuxlb.525 Posted: Wed Sep 8 01:43:58 1982 Received: Thu Sep 9 03:07:58 1982 #R:mork-cb:-13000:whuxlb:500002:000:372 whuxlb!ech Sep 8 01:16:00 1982 "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" That's no joke -- it's a paradigm for the difficulty of natural language processing. Reminds me of an early (50's) experiment in word-for-word translation. "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak", when translated from English to Russian and back, came out "the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten". =Ned=