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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...
What airplane pilots want to know when they cannot see the ground is exactly where they are. They can get this information by various combinations of electronic direction-finding and distance-measuring, as with the U.S. VOR (Very High Frequency Omnirange...
Subversive Parodies. By last winter the Belgrade broadcasters felt that perhaps the tune was being overplayed. They tried a new and hopeful theme song, "Es geht Alles vorüber, es geht Alles vorbei" ("Everything will be over, everything will be past"). But subversive parodies soon caused Propaganda Minister Goebbels to order Lili Marleen back on the air again...
...Goebbels has banned Germany's biggest recent song hit, Es Geht Alles Vorüber (It'll All Be Over Some Day). Citizens made up new lyrics in which they comforted themselves that what would be over some day was Hitler and his Party...
...Shady Green Pastures and Walk Around by the Wright Brothers Gospel Singers; I'm Tired of Mountain Women by Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan; many & many another. On these lists, collectors of Americana might find some rewarding items; jazz addicts would be overpowered by the prevailing corny fla vor. But Decca and Columbia would no more scrap their hillbilly catalogues than they would Bing Crosby and Benny Good man. Scout Kapp used to spend a month on a recording trip. Now, with ten trunks full of recording equipment, he camps in a city hotel for ten days...