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From: ray@ctbilbo.UUCP (Ray Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Do dogs love their humans (was: Can machines think....)
Keywords: rationalize ratiocinate
Message-ID: <34@ctbilbo.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 90 00:02:01 GMT
References: <2313@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu> <1990Feb19.165835.9673@pcsbst.pcs.com> <3839@uceng.UC.EDU> <4053@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ray@ctbilbo.UUCP (Ray Ward)
Organization: Communications Technology Corp
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In article <4053@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:
>>>[...]  The French have 47 words for love, [...]
>>>and the English language speakers have one word for think -- 
[...]
>WORD			HUMANS		MACHINES
>cogitate		aparently	unknown
[...lots of nice words...]
>design			occasionally	yes
>contrive		frequently	rarely

Oddly enough, two of my favorites were not even mentioned:
rationalize			always			kinda
ratiocinate			rarely			unknown

(But who among us has not at one time or another fallen into the "one-word-
for-think" syndrome at the instant of posting an article to the net?)


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