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I had a brief chat with my linguistics professor today about the feasablility of teaching a robot to speak like a human being. (more…)

Isn’t language incredible?! The human mouth and vocal cords can be manipulated with such precision to emit sound waves that another individual can discern and then decipher, to comprehend the feelings and ideas of the speaker.

And the written word – a collection of ordered squiggles on a page – can be recorded to convey exactly the same meaning, via the visual organs of another. (more…)