Microsoft files patent for verb conjugation software

[Wilson Gray]

That one works, Grant.

I've read the appliction more or less closely and I still don't see
why anyone would want to (buy? and) use such a program. I think that a
copy of Teach Yourself [Language] would be far more useful. If you
know enough to know how to use a table of the conjugation(s) of a
language, why would you need this program, even if you could get it at
no cost? If you don't know that, how could this program help you, even
if you got it at no cost?

Maybe it's not meant to be a practical, stand-alone app. Is this the
first baby-step toward development of the long-dreamed-of grail of
translation by machine?

-Wilson

On 9/5/06, Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 4, 2006, at 21:47, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
> > The URL for the patent application itself leads to a page that says
> > there are
> > zero results. Does this mean that the application has been
> > withdrawn--or is
> > there something wrong with the URL?
>
> Try this one:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/e5g7y
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> Grant Barrett
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> The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (May 2006, McGraw-Hill)
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