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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verb has been added to the American language by G.I.s in Europe. The verb is 'schine,' as in "You're schined from guard duty, soldier, and your chauffeur's waiting...
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...
Thus is defined a new Spanish word printed last week in the Argentine Ministry of Education's approved Dictionary of Conjugations. It is a transitive verb of the first conjugation, regularly inflected (e.g., peronizo, I peronize; peroniza-riamos, we would peronize; han peroni-zado, they have peronized). It will also be required learning after this spring for Argentine schoolchildren. Pronunciation...
...Associated Press also thought it time to sound a "note of warning on political reporting." Said A.P. in its weekly official Log: "Politics are rough and will get rougher before November-so we take this opportunity to warn against misuse of verbs and adjectives. Remember: There never was a verb better than 'said' . . . We've had phrases like 'stinging attack,' 'stinging rebuke' and the verb 'noted,' which connotes truth. The prize of them all (not A.P.) was this lead: 'Canton, Ohio- Senator McCarthy disclosed today the Democratic Party...
...knows it); also (as, the world worships success). Webster (Mr. Fox's authority) says, for Collective noun. Gram. A noun naming a collection or aggregate of individuals by a singular form (assembly, army, jury). When the designated collection is thought of as a whole, the noun takes a singular verb. (Mr. Fox said: "the world, by and large."). It strikes me that Mr. Fox has confounded the editorial ""we' with his many other activities and now regards himself as a collective noun, but even so, his ideas of the world are most singular and should remain so, unless every reference...