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You lost me well before the anodyne canards...

When talking about feelings, we now and then throw in an English word because some things are expressed in much less words when using English. In a few cases even a German word. Überhaupt is for example a word for which i do not know an alternative in any language.

I think you want to say that human language is too ambiguous for clear communication between human and machine. The machine might mis interpret what you write. Classic computer languages leave no room for interpretation.

For the rest I think you might be a little lost. That is okay, so many of us are. I wish you all the best.



>I think you want to say that human language is too ambiguous for clear communication between human and machine. [...]

If that is what I wanted to say, I figure I would not have had much difficulty with saying exactly it - and not something else.

Except I fail to see the purpose of making that statement.

Maybe to have some people say "it is true! I agree with what the balamatom is saying"?

Again - to what end? How would that agreement be of use to me?

Why say something which both speaker and listener have already heard a thousand times? To get a cracker and be called pretty?

And have I lost the author, or have I lost the reader, or we all so lost that it doesn't matter how lost each is? Maybe one day we will all become so lost that it will once again begin to matter where exactly we are! Counting on it.




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