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Author: Lewis Perin
Date: Aug 19, 2008 10:50

Sometimes, googling around to figure out a term I'm adding to the
Babelcarp database, I come across a website that shows how deep in tea
knowledge the Chinese Web is. Somehow this page shocked me when I
considered the odds of finding any of this knowledge in English:

http://scholar.ilib.cn/A-yyhx200604029.html

/Lew
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Twug Storn
Date: Aug 20, 2008 06:08


Uhh.. that's in some weird scratch-like language.
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Lewis Perin
Date: Aug 20, 2008 08:13

"Twug Storn" tytyttyty.com> writes:
>
> Uhh.. that's in some weird scratch-like language.

I think the scratches come from your browser lacking East Asian
character support. But I think you can see from the English on that
page that the technical level is pretty high, which was my point.

/Lew
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Dominic T.
Date: Aug 20, 2008 11:05

On Aug 20, 11:13 am, Lewis Perin panix.com> wrote:
> "Twug Storn" tytyttyty.com> writes:
>
>> Uhh.. that's in some weird scratch-like language.
>
> I think the scratches come from your browser lacking East Asian
> character support.  But I think you can see from the English on that
> page that the technical level is pretty high, which was my point.
>
> /Lew
> ---
> Lew Perin / pe...@acm.orghttp://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

Hey, I don't know about *YOU* but I certainly brew my tea by the A.I.
fuzzy logic algorithm string theory quantum pattern recognition
method, even my finest Red Rose! Sheesh, savages. I won't even *brew*
tea if it doesn't pass the Turing Test.

- Dominic
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Lewis Perin
Date: Aug 20, 2008 11:45

"Dominic T." gmail.com> writes:
> On Aug 20, 11:13 am, Lewis Perin panix.com> wrote:
>> "Twug Storn" tytyttyty.com> writes:
>>
>>> Uhh.. that's in some weird scratch-like language.
>>
>> I think the scratches come from your browser lacking East Asian
>> character support.  But I think you can see from the English on that
>> page that the technical level is pretty high, which was my point.
>>
>> /Lew
>> ---
>> Lew Perin / pe...@acm.orghttp://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html
>
> Hey, I don't know about *YOU* but I certainly brew my tea by the A.I.
> fuzzy logic algorithm string theory quantum pattern recognition
> method, even my finest Red Rose! Sheesh, savages. I won't even *brew*
> tea if it doesn't pass the Turing Test.
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Dominic T.
Date: Aug 20, 2008 12:21

On Aug 20, 2:45 pm, Lewis Perin panix.com> wrote:
> "Dominic T." gmail.com> writes:
>> On Aug 20, 11:13 am, Lewis Perin panix.com> wrote:
>>> "Twug Storn" tytyttyty.com> writes:
>
>>>> Uhh.. that's in some weird scratch-like language.
>
>>> I think the scratches come from your browser lacking East Asian
>>> character support.  But I think you can see from the English on that
>>> page that the technical level is pretty high, which was my point.
>
>>> /Lew
>>> ---
>>> Lew Perin / pe...@acm.orghttp://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html
>
>> Hey, I don't know about *YOU* but I certainly brew my tea by the A.I.
>> fuzzy logic algorithm string theory quantum pattern recognition
>> method, even my finest Red Rose! Sheesh, savages. I won't even *brew*
>> tea if it doesn't pass the Turing Test. ...
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Twug Storn
Date: Aug 20, 2008 17:45

> Wow, you're pretty demanding when it comes to tea. I find myself
> reading lots of Usenet posts that fail the TT. Not yours, I hasten to
> add...

Tell me about your lots of Usenet posts that fail the TT
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Lewis Perin
Date: Aug 21, 2008 06:50

"Twug Storn" tytyttyty.com> writes:
>> Wow, you're pretty demanding when it comes to tea. I find myself
>> reading lots of Usenet posts that fail the TT. Not yours, I hasten to
>> add...
>
> Tell me about your lots of Usenet posts that fail the TT

I'm tempted to say that your response reminds me of Eliza:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

But, honestly, I do think you're a human. When I wrote about Usenet
posts that failed the Turing test, I was actually thinking of spam.

/Lew
---
Lew Perin / perin@acm.org
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html
recent addition: Mengban
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Scott Dorsey
Date: Aug 21, 2008 07:51

Twug Storn tytyttyty.com> wrote:
>> Wow, you're pretty demanding when it comes to tea. I find myself
>> reading lots of Usenet posts that fail the TT. Not yours, I hasten to
>> add...
>
>Tell me about your lots of Usenet posts that fail the TT

Maybe it is because of my mother.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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Re: Why it's worth learning Chinese         


Author: Lewis Perin
Date: Aug 21, 2008 08:17

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> Twug Storn tytyttyty.com> wrote:
>>> Wow, you're pretty demanding when it comes to tea. I find myself
>>> reading lots of Usenet posts that fail the TT. Not yours, I hasten to
>>> add...
>>
>>Tell me about your lots of Usenet posts that fail the TT
>
>Maybe it is because of my mother.

Oh, right! And please forgive me, Twug - it didn't occur to me you
not only knew what Eliza was, you were channeling it^H^Hher.

/Lew
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