Y'all gnome sane?

[Mark Mandel]

I believe that would be what at Dragon systems we used to call a speako.

I am dictating this on my mobile phone. One of my friends refers to it as
"speaking with your granddaughter", considering that Siri uses technology
descended from Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Mark
On Oct 24, 2013 1:54 PM, "Dan Goncharoff" <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Garson has clarified my point for me quite well.
>
> Far be it from me, however, to question someone who studied Latin before it
> became a dead language...
>
> DanG
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:04 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Dan may have meant to raise the possibility that the error was caused
> > by a faulty transcription created by a voice recognition application
> > such as Siri or Google Now instead of a finger manipulation error.
> >
> > Compressed elliptical utterances are difficult to decode for men and
> > machines.
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> > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> digitalis?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Why wouldn't it be? Latin _lapsus digitalis_ = English "finger-slip"
> > >
> > > I take it that a person who speaks a dialect in which "saying" is
> > > pronounced "sane" should slip up and actually *write* "saying" as
> "sane"
> > is
> > > less interesting than challenging the waning competence of the winner
> of
> > > the 1954 high-school winner of the Latin Contest of the Missouri
> Province
> > > of the Society of Jesus? :-)
> > >
> > > FWIW, "Gnome sane?" as a jocular spelling of the ubiquitous
> > > conversation-filler, "Know what I'm saying?" has been around for at
> > least a
> > > dekkid.
> > > --
> > > -Wilson
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> > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > -Mark Twain
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