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From: gilbert@hci.hw.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: words order in English and Japanese
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Date: 28 Jan 88 13:48:59 GMT
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In article <3532@bcsaic.UUCP> rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik) writes:
>Finally, this topic really belongs in sci.lang.  It has little to do with AI.

If every topic raised in AI was restricted to its proper discipline,
this news group would be empty.  Personally, I would rather see the
computational paradigm properly distributed through the disciplines,
rather than left to the intellectual margins and scholarly wastelands
of AI.  However, given that AI exists, takes funding and pushes itself
onto the popular consciousness as a valid contribution to the
understanding of humanity, it is far more sensible for disciplined and
informed discussion to keep pushing into comp.ai.  AI workers complain
regularly about the oppressiveness of other disciplines when trying to
develop a computational view of human nature.  Lets keep up the oppression :-)

-- 
Gilbert Cockton, Scottish HCI Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Chambers St.,
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