Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!lloyd!kent
From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk???
Summary: not good for learning languages
Message-ID: <265@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 23 Nov 88 15:02:35 GMT
References: <6135@zodiac.UUCP> <71150@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <71150@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
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>OK - Here's my 2 cents worth.  I'm in favor of Macintalk support.
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>things. How about learning another language?  How about time notes in
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>Shirley Kehr

Speach synthesis tools are very bad for learning languages.  Macintalk
is currently specific to English, and even at that would be a VERY bad
example for how to speak English.  Somehow speaking English the way
Macintalk does does not seem very desirable for a human.

Kent Borg
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