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From: g-chapma@GUMBY.WISC.EDU (Ralph Chapman)
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Subject: re: grammar checkers
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 13:15:28 EDT
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From sklein@rsch.wisc.edu Thu Apr 16 14:20:13 1987
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 87 15:18:42 CDT
From: sklein@rsch.wisc.edu (Sheldon Klein)
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Subject: Re:  grammar checkers

I accept the note as one more piece of evidence that
the field of Comp Sci, Comp Ling & AI
are providing the prosthetic devices to allow
otherwise unemployable segments of the  World population
to function for pay in occupations for which they would
have been congenitally  unqualified in an earlier era.

Those capable of constructing complex sentences which, to some
pundits of an earlier era reflected the ability to think complex
thoughts, will have to abandon their elitist modes of cognition
for the greater benefit of the larger segment of humankind.