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7 months ago
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North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe us...
Hmm... However, language is itself also a tool. There are cases where adapting language to another tool is easier than the other way around.
gumby
7 months ago
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Sure, but the computer is a tool designed to be malleable and adapt to the human. This kind of grunt work (adapting to humans' models of collation) is exactly the kind of task that should be handed off to machines.
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