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The Zipf Mystery

mhardy6647

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Missing apostrophe's arent nearly as annoying as extraneou's one's.
Or commas (or comma's, if you prefer ;) )
Which leads us, inexorably, to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

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Russian doesn't make that distinction.
And that’s an excellent way to identify the villain in many Hollywood movies. "Game is up Mr. Bond. When saw reaches you I will be disrupting global financial system." :p:cool:
 

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Russian doesn't make that distinction.
It very much does. The distinction is set into verb and noun forms rather than requiring seperate grammatical articles.
 

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And that’s an excellent way to identify the villain in many Hollywood movies. "Game is up Mr. Bond. When saw reaches you I will be disrupting global financial system."
I believe you would laugh even more if you knew all that nonsense in ridiculous inscriptions in Russian used in movies:cool:
 

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I believe you would laugh even more if you knew all that nonsense in ridiculous inscriptions in Russian used in movies:cool:
There are several types of film Russian:
  • Actual Russian words (rare)
  • Properly transliterated English (why do they bother?)
  • English with visually similar Cyrillic letters substituted (cringe)
  • Random strings of Cyrillic letters, unpronounceable even in Russian
Sometimes spoken "Russian" is in fact something entirely different, such as very bad Swedish.
 

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Does this mean that Nim Chimpsky was correct about Deep Structure in languages?

As I read it, Nim was a subject of research, and not a researcher.

Maybe we should have asked KoKo.
 

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it was a joke, tho who knows what Nim thought about Fouts et al.?
 
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