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Guy Courchesne
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 Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: Spam Grammar |
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| Almost all are hurted from time to time with a head and is usual this problem the tablet solves but what to do if a headache chronic? |
for some kind of Aspirin... |
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cangringo
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Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Nice... 
It sounds like translated instructions like the ones for the ant chalk we got here. Don't give to children or old man...it's not spam but just as bad when it's instructions isn't it? |
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cangringo
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ResoreYourHair
got this in the email today and it made me laugh |
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Guy Courchesne
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Look at!!! To your eye we glad to represent MARSHAL HOLDINGS INC
This stock took it�s energy from the start of appearance on market of shares.
This incredible share really going to burst for a fewdays.
It was grown for 300% just for a few days!!! Come on don�t waste your time. |
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Venti
Joined: 19 Oct 2006
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Location: Kanto, Japan
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: Re: Spam Grammar |
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| this problem the tablet solves but what to do if a headache chronic? |
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Change "if" to "with" and it seems like poetry or part of an old limerick. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| I can't decide if that is really good beatnik or really bad Yoda. |
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Venti
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| I can't decide if that is really good beatnik or really bad Yoda. |
Sounds like pretty good Yoda to me. |
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coffeedrinker
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Damn, I just deleted a good spam sentence I got on my blog. It was something like "aggregator peanut butter banana bread". Yum!
I have no idea how that stuff is generated but it is interesting because sometimes it's just nonsense of course, but sometimes it comes close to making a grammatically correct but meaningless sentence...there must be some way to use this in class to illustrate a point! |
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ilaria
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Location: Sicily
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Coffeedrinker:
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| I have no idea how that stuff is generated but it is interesting because sometimes it's just nonsense of course, but sometimes it comes close to making a grammatically correct but meaningless sentence...there must be some way to use this in class to illustrate a point! |
For more info on grammatically correct but supposedly meaningless sentences, have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously
I remember once coming across a website where people tried to come up with a grammatical sentence that would be meaningless in any context - but I can't remember its name... |
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cangringo
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Fantastic idea to illustrate a point!! I love it, going to use it next class.
While watching Airplane last night for the millionth time, we realized it would also make excellent lessons. Has anyone used this to illustrate points...?? Things like - "A hospital, what is it?" and "Stop calling me Shirley" |
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coffeedrinker
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cool link, ilaria.
I'm all for using this in class...but my dumb question is, what point exactly? 
I was thinking along the lines of "see, you shouldn't just study grammar because this person knows grammar pefectly, but the sentence is meaningless." or "don't trust your electronic translater: a computer came up with this mumbo jumbo..."
There is also something interesting about the connection between computers and AI and articles...computers can't "understand" context. I have a cousin with a PhD in philosophy who wrote his thesis on "the". Really... |
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Jizzo T. Clown
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I used the postmodern essay generator as a source for a project in my Rhetoric class:
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo
(refresh the page to generate a new, equally meaningless essay)
I heard a professor actually used it to help him on his PhD! |
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rusmeister
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Let me offer http://www.engrish.com/
for overseas language whackiness. |
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cangringo
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The point would be you can make a grammatically correct sentence but it could be nonsensical so you shouldn't study English on your own...you need a teacher to splain things...  |
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Jetgirly
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I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of Dr. Oz's book You on a Diet. I'm going to use it to teach a lesson on similes (and possibly metaphors). Here's a sample from Amazon:
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| "...we don't want you to think that exercise must involve sweating like a waterfall or panting like an obscene caller." "...a system that determines whether that food gets burned, stored, or expelled faster than a delinquent high schooler." "...powered by such cues as sight, smell, and the fact that you've been drooling like an overheated Saint Bernard at the thought of a fried-cheese appetizer special." "...deciding which foods agree with your body and which foods cause your body to rebel like sixth graders with a substitute teacher." "Approximately sixteen seconds later, you feel guiltier than an un-neutered dog without a leash." |
Apparently the whole book is full of ridiculous figurative language. You can get it on Ebay as an e-book for about $4. |
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