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Interpretative Reporting. In Sacramento, angry Motorist Ernest M. Blackburn was hauled off to jail after he refused to sign the traffic citation he received for driving too slowly unless Traffic Officer Ernest Jasper agreed to prefix his own signature with "Eager Beaver...
Potter's plan is simply to divide all English humor into nine categories, with samples, and prefix one long introduction and nine shorter ones. Perhaps there is some virtue in classifying humor in this manner, as much, anyway, as there is in making nine arbitrary divisions of, say, literature since Homer. But it seems to me that the field is much too broad and amorphous to be handled in a book of under three hundred pages, or in any book at all, for that matter. Potter himself must realize this, when he says of humor: "Perhaps its history...
Scientific papers, of course, do not need the full vocabulary, but all existing languages are full of grammatical oddities that would be hard on a machine's digestion. In German, for instance, a prefix is often widely separated from the verb whose meaning it changes. Dr. Bar-Hillel points out that the sentence "Paid gibt Trunkenheit vor" (Paul simulates drunkenness) might be translated mechanically "Paul gives drunkenness before." He has no solution for this problem except to make writers of German use an "operational syntax" that will not perplex the machine...
...already ahead of them. Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable. McCord says he prefers real Lost Positives, but for fun sometimes uses false ones, such as pistle. "The prefix in that word is really not the Latin e but the Greek epi," he explains. This justified his reply to a friend who sent him a clipping with a note: "Lighted to ward the closed which is cised from day's Irish Times." McCord wrote back: "Pistle ceived and tents...
...Knighthood in the Order of the British Empire for "furthering Anglo-American amity." When he got his knighthood, his children prepared him a surprise-a leather case engraved "Sir Douglas Fairbanks." The new knight took it in stride when he learned that foreigners are not permitted to bear the prefix "Sir." "Oh, never mind about titles," he said. But he did take up a knight's coat of arms from the College of Arms...