Re: Natural language

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At 02:19 PM 3/30/98 -0800,  Jacques Guy wrote:
>Christopher K. Lester wrote:
>
>> Secondly, a human has language because it intends to communicate.

Except for politicians, of course, who have language for the exact
opposite reason.*

>> Computers have no such intention.

Just think, people used to worry about _computers_ taking over
the world! How silly of us.

*note: some would argue that politicians are not human, since they
  are, after all, descended from lawyers....

  Irv

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