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...right: learning to dictate to the machine was trickier than I had supposed. For instance, I pronounce the article "a" as "uh," but the machine understood it only if I said "ay." Also, Gervais admitted, there was a bug in my version (3.01) of the software that cut off the first utterance of any dictation. That bug has been squashed. Now the device is getting better than 90% accuracy and types "tomato" just...
Bart Simpson is an underachiever--"and proud of it," as a million T shirts read, back when The Simpsons began its run on Fox and he was the first fad of the '90s. Remember "Eat my shorts"? Recall "Cowabunga" and "Ay, caramba"? His fame skyrocketed in no time; burnout was virtually assured...
...Arlington resident reported that she was assaulted ay JFK Street and Mt. Auburn Street by a male known to her. She stated that she had been harassed by the man in a Harvard Square bar earlier in the evening...
Also, they've been telling me, the euro would be unified only on paper. Spoken out loud, the euro is as many currencies as there are languages. The Spanish would presumably call it an ay-oo-roe. The French pronunciation is so odd that an English doctor I spoke to advised against attempting it on an empty stomach...
...bathroom to match a pair of sandals. Last year's sales: $10 million. This year's projection: $25 million. "Someone asked, 'Why do you make nail polish for young girls with colors called Pimp and Porno?'" she recalls. "I thought, 'O.K. You're taking yourself wa-a-ay too seriously.' Like, pimp is slang for cool. As in 'Oh, my God, that's so pimp!'" Cool, in other words. Competition from such global giants as Chanel and Revlon amuses her. "Their ads are, like, 'We'll tell you what's hip.'" She puts her green-tipped index fingers...