Word: trunkenheit
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...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...
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