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From: rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: words order in English and Japanese
Message-ID: <3725@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 16:54:27 GMT
References: <1671@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <3532@bcsaic.UUCP> <158@glenlivet.hci.hw.ac.uk>
Reply-To: rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <158@glenlivet.hci.hw.ac.uk> gilbert@hci.hw.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) writes:
>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

I suppose that you could justify debate on anything in this newgroup, in
which case it would be the opposite of empty :-).  The public seems to
want to debate this issue here, so I'll stop trying to move it.  Still,
it seems to have little to do with the problems that AI researchers busy
themselves with.  And it has everything to do with what language
scholars busy themselves with.  Perhaps the participants realize
instinctively that their views make more sense in this newsgroup.