030917 HaywireMac wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:08:07 +0700
> Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>> What did Chomsky say about it?
> exactly what that Cambridge research showed,
> that people learn language not in bits and pieces
> like the "phonics" method still in use today,
> but by grokking whole chunks of meaning
> from analyzing contextual patterns in speech and writing.

no, that's a NON SEQ : you learn to read with phonics
-- tho' that's not enough for the whole of English's anarchic spelling -- ,
but once you've really digested it, your brain processes it differently.
it's parallel to learning to speak a foreign language fluently,
where an adult starts by constructing sentences word-by-word
(small children can employ a more direct process, as Chomsky observed).

>> Even IBM's notorious deep blue failed to defeat Kasparov.

yes, there was clearly human help for the computer in the 2nd game.

and what is 'hijacking a thread'?  i never heard of it before,
unless you mean simply not changing 'Subject' when you should.

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