[Ads-l] Heard own Neckid Anna Fred

[Mark Mandel]

Aha. In the speech-to-text business we called that a speako.

(But why was "Neckid" in the program's vocabulary?)

—Mark Mandel, Senior Linguist, Dragon Systems, Inc., RIP. (1990 – 2001)


On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 9:32 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Naked and Afraid" (on the Discovery channel), methinks?
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 6:28 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey Wilson, wanna try that title again? Google mostly gives me false hits
> > with "Anna Freud".
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018, 5:18 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "When I'm not commercial-fishing, I bow-hunt."
> > >
> >
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On Apr 2, 2018 9:32 AM, "Ben Zimmer" <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

"Naked and Afraid" (on the Discovery channel), methinks?

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 6:28 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Wilson, wanna try that title again? Google mostly gives me false hits
> with "Anna Freud".
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018, 5:18 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "When I'm not commercial-fishing, I bow-hunt."
> >
>

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