[Corpora-List] All English Text Messaging Corpus?

[Patrick Juola]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Khurshid Ahmad <kahmad at scss.tcd.ie> wrote:

> Dear Laura
> I am writing to support Rich.
>
> The USPTO documents are in Legal English and are written by Patent
> Attorneys -these documents form a representative sample of American
> English and to a lesser extent that of other national varieties of written
> English.  There is a distinction between patent claims and granted
> patents.  To be authentic, I prefer the granted patents as these documents
> have been reviewed by more than one person. I think the USPTO allows you
> to make that distinction in their retrieval engine.
>

Shrug.  I'm writing to support the argument against Rich.   Patent claims
have nothing to with text messaging; they're entirely different.   If I
asked for information about cookbooks and recipes and someone steered me to
their collection of movie reviews, I wouldn't find that helpful at all.
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