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From: jlg@lanl-a.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: rate of speed
Message-ID: <347@lanl-a.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 12:37:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  9 12:37:58 1983
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Rate of speed is well understood by the general population as being redundant
and illiterate.  The only reason to discuss it on the network (it seems to me)
is to determine what it should mean (if it had any meaning at all).  This is
in the context of a natural language understanding program (which oughtODshould be
the topic of this newsgroup).  To be 'user friendly', such a program would
assume that input from humans had some meaning.  If it couldn't find a non-
redundant, grammatical meaning for its input, then it could assume that the 
input was in error.  I would be very happy if such a program returned a message
like: 'I don't understand "rate of speed"; do you mean "acceleration"?'