Machine-sorting of fact and opinion for Homeland Security?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Kewl. Now I don't have to.

  An important SOTA, however :

  "Ironically, Cardie said, one of the phrases most likely to indicate opinion is "It is a fact that ..."

  Now that's irony!

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Wilson Gray
Subject: Machine-sorting of fact and opinion for Homeland Security?
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-Wilson
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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep
a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.

--Sam Clemens

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