Wordwizard

I am an American and so can you

Thanks to hs for opening the thread Right versus Left . In this connection Libertarian was supposed to represent a kind of amalgam leaning to the left on social matters and the right on fiscal (wondering, however, if there isn't implied a hidden conflict). But this term may be undergoing a semantic ...

Ken as I felt you were being ignored I was compelled to comment on this subject, dear to my heart. Where deists gain comfort from their faith, the atheists, agnostics, and many pantheists are denied it So the trick is to be able to entertain conflicting ideas, a rare quality and, I believe, one of t...

Bob, hilarious

This is slightly OT but I've always considered circumcision barbarous although reluctant to say so because it would be Politically Incorrect

See third post down from top:

http://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.p ... ber=166189

hs: Probably you've already been there, but if not,

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ha ... gle+Search

One might try adding OR intitle:idioms
or the like

Really belted me

Hi Phil, don't guarantee this will be of any help and maybe you've even been there, but

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=he ... gle+Search

Ken thank you for that as I just became a proud grandpop

Thanks to Erik for the expr. Now I know I'm a chatterbot as well as a troll

gd sorry as I assumed ALICE might contian such a program but if I find one in the meantime I'll provide a link

MITA is one of the chat-bots in your link. *****Aha now I understand. While composing my post I had inadvertently selected the MITA link, but then very shortly corrected it to ALICE. But you had read my post in the meantime and thus the confusion Alice is better, but hardly fit for any contest. ****...

gdwdwrkr wrote:MITA is really unintelligent. Which did you recommend ?

Sorry gd I'm not up on these things. I don't know who MITA is and can't specifically remember recommending anything

Phil, gd is absolutely on the mark, to get a purchase on something is to get beside it as he has gained a firm purchase upon the subject, while I can hardly be described as a well-educated, professional linguist

It's my impression that AI isn't a topic daily on everyone's mind and so I am wondering 1) If that's because a) Almost everyone subconsciously feels threatened by it and therefore avoids discussion and participation, or b) I'm wrong and it's everywhere 2) Some AI programs act so genuinely human that...

For the ignorant such as I

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=si ... gle+Search

so in Tongan it apparently means having held one's breath for a specified interval