Re: virus: artificial intelligence (was: parroting)

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Sun, 30 Aug 1998 13:36:28 -0400


Tim,

you wrote:
> I don't think so. Expletives carry most of their meaning bound up in
> inflection and context. They hardly have anything like a one-to-one
> relationship to anything else.

I spelled out my one-to-one relationship yesterday, mapping most expletives
unto "I've done something wrong" (e.g. damn, sh*t, crap, etc.), and the
remaining few unto "that's great!" (e.g. my personal favorite, hot-damn),
what more could you want for an isomorphism?

> See attached--but be warned it contains much
> much potty-mouth language!

You probably know this by now, but there was no attachment.

ERiC