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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Machines *CAN* think!  They still do...
Message-ID: <6979@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 23:02:58 GMT
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From article <1990Mar16.104707.29360@hellgate.utah.edu>, by kbreinho%ug.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Keith Breinholt):

>...  Children are not born with the ability to
>pronounce words or control _any_ of the hardware delivered with the unit.

That's putting it pretty strongly, isn't it?  They don't need much
special instruction to breathe.  That's one of the many abilities
you need for pronouncing words.  They are born with some control
over lips and tongue ...

>... Children are not born with the ability to understand a spoken language.
>When was the last time you told your child how to construct a sentence?

Er, how does one construct a sentence, anyhow?

			Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu