With respect to generative grammars and natural language, Peter Norvig
just posted an interesting essay about Noam Chomsky's objections to
statistical and probabalistic methods in machine learning as part of
the MIT 150th anniversary.
(Peter talks a little about sentences like the fish and
At 2011-06-01 02:23:08 -0700, manikuttyan...@yahoo.com wrote:
To build up an arbitrarily large sentence involving fish, I give you
the following grammar:
Sentence - NX V [N_that_is_the_name_of_a_place] N
NX - N NX V | N N V
Here, N = fish as a noun
V = fish as a verb
As Austin Powers would say, this is a great example of cunning linguistics...
Venky
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Anand Manikutty
manikuttyan...@yahoo.com wrote:
There has been a discussion on the Internets on Buffalo Buffalo ... ever
since Paul Krugman posted about the sentence on his New
On Friday 03 June 2011 09:30 PM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
Oh, fish!
You mean, Go fish!? right?
--Venkat
On 3 June 2011 07:21, Anand Manikutty manikuttyan...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Heather:
I am extremely busy right now and am unable to reply to your e-mail message,
and address the concerns you may have about the validity of Fish fish ...
as a sentence.
Oh, you *can't* have missed that!
Venky TV [03/06/11 12:52 +0530]:
Oh, you *can't* have missed that! Seriously?! Let me pitch in too.
Think the whole thing is a load of carp.
Not a single bong weighed in so far? Or a mallu (except for maybe Anand)?
Not even samanth subramanian, avid fish follower? :)
Anand's fishing for
On 03-Jun-11 12:52 PM, Venky TV wrote:
Think the whole thing is a load of carp.
Or codswallop?
Udhay (this thread's about to get scrod now)
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
On Friday 03 June 2011 07:21 AM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
Hi Heather:
I am extremely busy right now and am unable to reply to your e-mail message,
and address the concerns you may have about the validity of Fish fish ...
If this is your extremely busy to reply reply, I wonder what your full
On Friday 03 June 2011 01:17 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Udhay (this thread's about to get scrod now)
About to? Now? Ayu! This was a driftfish all along. We are all
happy as guppy now. :P
On a related note, this year the Alfonsino - errr-- alfonsos are not
so tasty. Something to do with
On Friday 03 June 2011 06:24 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
This whole thread seems a little fishy to me.
Talking about so many fish, isn't it unhygenix?
--Venkat
--- On Fri, 3/6/11, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
From: Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com
Subject: Re: [silk] fish^N
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 3 June, 2011, 13:50
On Friday 03 June 2011 06:24 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
This whole thread seems a little
On 3 Jun 2011 14:02, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
Truly, a red herring.
IG, your carping raises a valid point. Venkat will have to mullet over.
-- b
On 3 June 2011 13:59, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
What kind of racist bad-taste remark is that, talking about Bongs weighing
in?
And Shirley, Bongs are not evaluated on their weight, are they? I can
imagine assessing them on efficiency, on the chances of accidentally
On Friday 03 Jun 2011 2:15:55 pm Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
What kind of racist bad-taste remark is that, talking about Bongs
weighing in?
And Shirley, Bongs are not evaluated on their weight, are they?
Weight. Not so fast. Not unless they are weighl sized, But then again weighls
are
--- On Fri, 3/6/11, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
From: ss cybers...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] fish^N
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 3 June, 2011, 14:31
On Friday 03 Jun 2011 2:15:55 pm
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
What kind of racist bad-taste remark
Oh, fish!
Anand
P.S. More here
:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/456
From: Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Sent: Fri, June 3, 2011 6:58:41 AM
Subject: Re: [silk] fish^N
--- On Fri, 3/6
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:14:14AM +0530, Bharath Chari wrote:
fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun)
fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun)
However, the sentence Slap slap slap slap slap slap slap slap. has
only one meaning.
On Thursday 02 Jun 2011 10:14:14 am Bharath Chari wrote:
However, the sentence Slap slap slap slap slap slap slap slap. has
only one meaning.
Let me guess. A dog drinking milk?
shiv
On 06/02/2011 03:07 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:14:14AM +0530, Bharath Chari wrote:
fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun)
fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun)
However, the sentence Slap slap slap slap slap
This one takes the cake for grammar lessons, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
Anand
--- In silk-l...@yahoogroups.com, Bharath Chari chari@... wrote:
On 06/02/2011 03:07 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:14:14AM +0530, Bharath Chari wrote:
fish(Noun)
This whole thread seems a little fishy to me.
--
Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com)
http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.
Hi Heather:
I am extremely busy right now and am unable to reply to your e-mail message,
and address the concerns you may have about the validity of Fish fish ... as
a sentence. This whole thing got started when I was chatting with a friend of
mine who happens to be a Scrabble player (and has
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Anand Manikutty
manikuttyan...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Heather:
I am extremely busy right now and am unable
etcetera.
Holy Mackerel! Talk about o-fish-ally not getting Heather's angle.
S.
--
Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR!
Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad
On 06/03/2011 07:21 AM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
You can take alook at the posts to see if you are convinced. Otherwise, feel
free to email me and I can try to convince you offline. In the meantime, you
can take a look at my List to see if the posts on there convince you. I knew
about language
On 06/03/2011 07:21 AM, Anand Manikutty wrote:
You can take alook at the posts to see if you are convinced. Otherwise, feel
free to email me and I can try to convince you offline. In the meantime, you
can take a look at my List to see if the posts on there convince you. I knew
about language
There has been a discussion on the Internets on Buffalo Buffalo ... ever
since
Paul Krugman posted about the sentence on his New York Times blog. Brad DeLong
posted about it also. Brad DeLong got it up to 10 buffalo, but more is
possible.
This is a matter of international significance and so
Anand, I mean wow, too much wow :)
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Anand Manikutty manikuttyan...@yahoo.comwrote:
There has been a discussion on the Internets on Buffalo Buffalo ...
ever since Paul Krugman posted about the sentence on his New York Times
blog. Brad DeLong posted about it
Things do evolve! There were badgers .. and mushrooms ..
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
Anand Manikutty [01/06/11 02:23 -0700]:
There has been a discussion on the Internets on Buffalo Buffalo ... ever since
Paul Krugman posted about the sentence on his New York Times blog. Brad DeLong
On 01-Jun-2011, at 3:05 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Things do evolve! There were badgers .. and mushrooms ..
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
And nyan cat... http://nyan.cat/
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 03:54:33PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
On 01-Jun-2011, at 3:05 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Things do evolve! There were badgers .. and mushrooms ..
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
And nyan cat... http://nyan.cat/
unsuckscab tiredoldmeme-list
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 2:53:08 pm Anand Manikutty wrote:
P.S. A sample construct of this grammar is the sentence below :
fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun)
fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun)
fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun)
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