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Article #2601Re: Syntactical *definition* of English
From: Rob Bernardo
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1988 04:55
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1988 04:55
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In article <3349@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
+even stilted English would be enough for me. I just want to talk to my
+Unix system in a more converstational manner, I have having the keystrokes
+'ls -al' burned into my brain, wasting those valuable neural pathways.
Let's see, if your UNIX system understood conversational English only,
you'd have to say:
Give me a long listing of everything in the directory.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!pbhyf!rob From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Syntactical *definition* of English Message-ID: <4088@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Date: 20 Oct 88 04:55:04 GMT References: <726@wsccs.UUCP> <6946@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <3349@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 14